How could Jesus be God if he didn’t know all things?

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[praveenUFO]

Jesus foreknew everything, as bible says all things were made by him and for him

[joshuathomas]

Frank I'm so glad you uploaded this and could answer my question! This had been a question that plagued me for a while, and you helped clear it up! Thanks for visiting my campus! God Bless!

[christtheonlyhope]

Although Jesus was fully God (John 1:1, 14), when He became a man, He voluntarily restricted the use of certain divine attributes (Philippians 2:6–8). He did not manifest them unless directed by the Father (John 4:34; 5:30; 6:38). He demonstrated His omniscience on several occasions (cf. John 2:25; 3:13), but He voluntarily restricted that omniscience to only those things God wanted Him to know during the days of His humanity (John 15:15). Such was the case regarding the knowledge of the date and time of His return. After He was resurrected, Jesus resumed His full divine knowledge (cf. Matthew 28:18; Acts 1:7).

Simple bible basics.

[original_golden_egg]

Him not knowing everything and being hungry and tired is proof that he really became a man, like us others. He also had temptations like the rest of us, but could resist them. We can never say "God you cannot judge us because you don't know what it's like down here" because Jesus knows that exactly.

[elvirareis]

MANKIND, WE CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE GREATNESS OF GOD SO THAT THE IGNORANT WILL PUT LIMITS ON
GOD. JOHN 3:16

[titaniumsteel]

WHY DID JESUS HIDE HIS GLORY?

Glorify the Father

Jesus hid his glory when he became a man in order to show his Father’s glory. “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him” (John 1:18). When Old Testament believers witnessed an appearance of Christ, they were often fearful for their lives. They knew that sinful man could not look upon God and live. The glory of God was also the judgment of God; the natural person who saw it died. When Moses spent forty days alone with God on Mount Sinai, it was necessary to cover his face when he came down because it reflected the glory of God. The people could not look upon God and live.


When John was on the Isle of Patmos, he too had a vision of Christ. When John saw Jesus in the full glory that was his from the beginning, John wrote, “And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead” (Rev. 1:17). When Paul had a similar vision of Christ, he was blinded with light from heaven (Acts 9:3-9). Later he wrote of being “caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter” (2 Cor. 12:4). When Isaiah saw the Lord in the temple, he cried out, “Woe is me…” (Isa. 6:1-8).If Jesus had not veiled his preincarnate glory he could not have accomplished what he came to earth to do. It was necessary for Christ to hide his glory temporarily as he sought to save the souls of men. After the work of atonement was done, he could pray, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was” (John 17:5).


Limitations of Humanity

As a result of the incarnation, Jesus became the God-man. He was at all times both God and man as he lived on earth. When Jesus became flesh, he voluntarily subjected himself to its limitations Be. fore his birth, heaven was his throne. Now in the flesh, Jesus was limited to the distance that a man could walk on the paths of Galilee. The Son of God who created water voluntarily lived in a body that got thirsty.


Jesus was born into this world as other humans (Luke 2:120), even though his conception was supernatural. As a child he developed as every human must develop. Jesus grew in mental, physical, spiritual, and social areas of life (Luke 2:52). He had the essential elements of human nature. He was body (Heb. 10:5), soul (John 12:27), and spirit (Mark 2:8). Jesus became hungry when he did not eat (Matt. 4:2). He became tired and asked the woman at the well for water to drink (John 4:6). Throughout his life on earth, Jesus was just as human as any one of us, subject to the same emotional experiences of sorrow, pain, and hurt which any man experiences.The willingness of Jesus to limit himself to becoming a man gives us confidence that he understands the affairs of our lives. “For we have not an high priest who cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15). Because he has experientially known the frustrations of humanity, we have a “God of all comfort” (2 Cor. 1:3) upon whom we can depend. While those who deny his deity believe they are honoring Jesus Christ in calling him a great man, the Bible says he emptied himself voluntarily by accepting the limitations of humanity. Yet at all times he remained God.He surrendered the independent use of some attributes. Self-emptying took place also by the voluntary choice not to use certain of his attributes.


Power of the Holy Spirit

Perhaps the best expression of omnipotence is that of the miracles of God. Even though Jesus was known as a miracle worker, he performed those miracles through the power of the Holy Spirit (Matt. 12:28). He voluntarily laid aside his power to do them and relied on the Holy Spirit or the Father. On various occasions he made it clearly known he was doing the work of his Father.


“Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise” (John 5:19).


During his earthly life and ministry, Jesus was omniscient, but did not know the time of the second coming. He was omnipresent, but when he became flesh, he limited himself to being in one place at one time. He was omnipotent, yet he prayed to God to perform the raising of Lazarus from the dead. Jesus had not lost these attributes of God, but rather, in the process of emptying himself, he chose not to use his relative attributes.

[texasdude]

The Incarnation. He is 100% God 100% man. Same with the trinity. Difficult to understand yet that's what the bible says. So what it really boils down to in the end is do you believe by faith what the bible says or not.

[eclipsesonic]

Luke 2:52 - "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man."

Like Frank said, as a man, Jesus was not only limited in what He knew, but his knowledge also increased as well during His earthly life.

[mam]

LOL Frank how many times did you have to practice that "what1 and what2" spiel??

[marydelaney]

Jesus had to prove himself before his ministry began. Remember he told his mother, Mary, at the wedding that his time had not yet come. When he went into the wilderness to fast, he did so for 40 days, which 40 is probation in biblical numerics. This act left Jesus extremely weak in human flesh, but he was able to withstand the temptation of satan in this weakened state. It was then that he began his ministry, after he had proven himself in the flesh. Had Jesus been privy to all of his/God's knowledge and ability, it would have given satan a reason to argue the crucifixion was not fair. God came to the earth as Jesus to defeat satan, he did it fairly, as a human man, prone to all the imperfections that humans have. Yet he prevailed and defeated death, which is satan. What a wonderful plan!

[bojing]

Should have quoted Colossians 2:9: In Him, All deity is contained in bodily form.

and Philippians 2, Jesus, in His utterly absolutely state of humility, did not think he's equal with the Father, something to be used to His own advantage.

and then end off with this verse, since the Son doesnt know the coming of the Father, and entrusts it to Him, yet Only the Son knows the Father.

“All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Matthew 11:27 NIV

Anddd the famous one:

The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1) = Immanuel (God literally with us) (Isaiah 7:14)

[Scorpion-mydv]

1. Muslims don't have the Holy Spirit to give them wisdom regarding the bible.
2. Nobody can simply "figure out the gospel." It has to be revealed.

[sonofkingsolomon]

The human part of Jesus didn't know everything

[gregdiprinzio]

Phillipians 2:6

"Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient unto death--- even death on a cross!"

Matthew 26:53

" Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal twelve legions of angels?"

Matthew 11:27

"All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

John 16:13-15

"But when he, the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you."

Now, confusion comes because we are unused to glorifying or honoring, anyone but ourselves.

Aside: major earthquake in San Juan Bautista Ca (where I'm at) as I finished that last sentence.

Jesus didn't say, "all things whatsoever the Father has he has given to me, " but "...Are mine" which shows the inseparable union with the Father.

John 3:35

"The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands."

Hands, mark that.

John 1:1-4

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind."

When the Word was made flesh all things were delivered to him that through the Incarnation would be restored: the thorns of the cursed ground, the minerals that made the nails and spearhead, the tree that formed the cross, the animal skin that made the scourge, the man who labors, is heavy laden, restless and doomed to death, the curse, the indignation of God were delivered unto him, for it is fitting that, as all things were made through, so IN HIM all things might be restored.

Jesus' challenge was to speak in such a way as to let the people know of his divinity without giving them the impression he was also the Father and the Spirit, while at the same time giving glory to the other persons of the Trinity and revealing the purpose of the Incarnation.

If you're having trouble understanding the Trinity just stare at that glaringly obvious metaphor for the Trinity, the sun. The most important object in our world. In a second you will realize that it is the one thing you cannot look at though it is that by which you see everything else. You can understand the Trinity about as well as you can stare at the sun with naked eye. Just as the light that comes to earth cannot be separated from the sun, so the Son is one with Father, and the heat of the sun with both. While the sun sends light you may be saved, while the moon (dust and sunlight) shines you can find your way in the darkness.

At the crucifixion the sun was darkened for three hours. Jesus would be gone 3 days. The unbelieving Jews stood condemned of crucifying the savior. When Christ arose salvation dawned on the earth.

Joel 2:31
Acts 2:20
Rev. 6:12

When the Lamb opens the sixth seal, the sixth day creation, man, will stand condemned. The sun will go out and the moon turn to blood, in remembrance of his shed blood and the marking of the time of the pouring out of God's cup of wrath.

The temple in Jerusalem faced east. When the curtain to the Holy of Holies was rent and the sun came back in brightness after three hours, the light (of the world, Jesus) entered the Holy of Holies.

[JaySHess]

This same Greek phrase “no one knows … but …” is found in two other places in the Bible—both in Revelation: 2:17; 19:12-13. The issue of two natures does not explain these two verses. A clue is found in Acts 1:6-7. The knowing of the time in Acts refers to the authority the Father has in determining when it will oc­cur—an authority no one else has, not even the Son. Between Mark 13 and Acts 1, we see the same question and nearly the same response. Putting these together shows the knowledge of the time is not about an intellectual awareness, but rather it is about the deci­sion-making that is in the Father’s jurisdiction alone. Mark 13:32 is not saying the Son has no awareness of the time, but rather He does not have a share in deciding the time. No one but the Father has this.

[DaniielPineda]

Does he like... pull up those power point presentations in that moment? Like does he search for them or are they already on? How does the question match the presentation every time

[springsoflifeministries]

Jesus does know everything, we just need to pay close attention to how He says it.

[Miguel-ycqp]

Id even say that it is like I have a watch on my wrist and you ask me: what time is it, and I look at your eyes and say I dont know.

[zoomfin]

The phrase 'nobody knows the hour or the day except the father' is referring to the ancient Jewish wedding process.
Nothing to do with theology.
After the bethroyal of the bride, the groom returns to build a room in the father's house.
After that he waits for the father's instruction to return to bring back the bride for the wedding.
Only the father knows when to send the son back.
The eschatology of Jesus and His bride is a beautiful picture of the ancient Jewish wedding process.

[marydelaney]

After I posted my comment earlier, I read many posts that also give light to this question posed on the video. Isn't it mind boggling how many references God gave us to answer this very question?