Why didn’t Jesus know?

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Aerials1978

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I’m sure most people have heard others say to others they are a know it all, Jesus didn’t claim that he knew his limitations while in human form. The complete knowledge of God can’t fit in the human brain it would overload the brains circuitry the brain would literally explode into a thousand pieces.

the example in scripture about the woman who was healed IMO is of that limitation.
We have an understanding of that, but doubters and skeptics use these verses to state Jesus was not God incarnate.
 

Alertandawake

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But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Matthew 24:36


Saw this question and I thought it was interesting. If Jesus is omniscience(Being God), why didn’t He know the time or day of His return?

Thoughts/opinions?
Ask yourself this question. Can The Supreme Being, that is All Knowing (knows everything) but at the same time not know something?
 

bojack

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But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Matthew 24:36


Saw this question and I thought it was interesting. If Jesus is omniscience(Being God), why didn’t He know the time or day of His return?

Thoughts/opinions?
I wonder if the day and hr is as relevant as is the number .. In verse 11, here a day or hour was not mentioned either , if we each have free will then I could see more a little wiggle room and the Father says when it's ''go time''
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
 

Aerials1978

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The one issue I see with that would be, today that would be called a white lie, by saying who touch me but knowing who did would be telling a half truth.
Perhaps He said that so the women would come forward to have her sin forgiven. What about when His brothers asked him to go to Jerusalem and said no, but later changed His mind? Again this could be all due to His humanness.
 

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The one issue I see with that would be, today that would be called a white lie, by saying who touch me but knowing who did would be telling a half truth.
Just because Jesus asked who touched Him? No, the white lie would be if the woman who did touch Him stayed quiet.
Asking who touched Him was the pre-crucifixion Jesus, who did nothing but what the Father who sent Him led Him to do.
We can take that and consider this touching to mean, Jesus didn't actually know. Or, Jesus asking the question, as I said before, lets the one who did show their level of integrity.
Even if Jesus did know, lets presume, He didn't tell a lie when He asked who touched Him. Asking a question while knowing the answer isn't lying. White or otherwise. Nor is it telling a half truth.
 
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Perhaps He said that so the women would come forward to have her sin forgiven. What about when His brothers asked him to go to Jerusalem and said no, but later changed His mind? Again this could be all due to His humanness.
Perhaps
 
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Just because Jesus asked who touched Him? No, the white lie would be if the woman who did touch Him stayed quiet.
Asking who touched Him was the pre-crucifixion Jesus, who did nothing but what the Father who sent Him led Him to do.
We can take that and consider this touching to mean, Jesus didn't actually know. Or, Jesus asking the question, as I said before, lets the one who did show their level of integrity.
Even if Jesus did know, lets presume, He didn't tell a lie when He asked who touched Him. Asking a question while knowing the answer isn't lying. White or otherwise. Nor is it telling a half truth.
Yet looking around while people watched him look around would seem silly if he knew. that would be like pretending to not know in front of people.

Mark 5
32But He kept looking around to see who had done this.
 

Sipsey

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As mentioned already, His words were understood as part of the ritual dialogue in Jewish wedding ceremonies.
 

Aerials1978

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That’s
As mentioned already, His words were understood as part of the ritual dialogue in Jewish wedding ceremonies.
That’s another aspect that can be taken into consideration.
 

Whispered

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Yet looking around while people watched him look around would seem silly if he knew. that would be like pretending to not know in front of people.

Mark 5
32But He kept looking around to see who had done this.
Which is why I think we should refer to the scriptures that tell us Jesus was not yet Omniscient then and therefore His question would be genuine.
 

Aerials1978

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We don’t give attention to them do we?
We give them attention as witness the of risen Christ. Part of being a Christian is also being an Apologists
 
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We give them attention as witness the of risen Christ. Part of being a Christian is also being an Apologists
Good luck with that sometimes it’s best to wipe the dust off, put it in God’s hand let him deal with it.
 

oksana123

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I see God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as being 3 persons that are all 1 God. Kind of like the senate all being one senate but consisting of multiple people. In the Bible it says “Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.” John 14:28. In the Bible there are multiple examples of Jesus praying to the father, doing the Fathers will, etc. I believe God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit all have different functions therefore the Father is greater then the son and when he commands the Son to return he will return.
 

JaumeJ

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But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Matthew 24:36


Saw this question and I thought it was interesting. If Jesus is omniscience(Being God), why didn’t He know the time or day of His return?

Thoughts/opinions?
He was yet in the flesh working His mission for all who come to Him. He thought it nothing to not be God for a time for the salvation of all who will come to Him. He was not yet glorified. He certainly is now, and back to being our Eternal Father,our King, our Husband,, The Ruler of Peace Counselor, Comforter, God Almighty………..Isaiah 9;6
 

Aerials1978

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I see God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as being 3 persons that are all 1 God. Kind of like the senate all being one senate but consisting of multiple people. In the Bible it says “Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.” John 14:28. In the Bible there are multiple examples of Jesus praying to the father, doing the Fathers will, etc. I believe God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit all have different functions therefore the Father is greater then the son and when he commands the Son to return he will return.
The nature of God is so far beyond what we humans can even begin to comprehend. We’re talking about a force so powerful that the entire universe of trillions of stars was formed by His will. When I really ponder that,I know exactly how David felt.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
Psalm 8:3-4
 
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But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Matthew 24:36


Saw this question and I thought it was interesting. If Jesus is omniscience(Being God), why didn’t He know the time or day of His return?

Thoughts/opinions?
Trinity persons perform different functions. But they are each God of the same single Spirit.
 

posthuman

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I think this also draws a correlation to when Jesus was tempted by Satan. People ask “How can God be temped by the Devil?” The answer is Jesus was being tempted as a man. His humanity was being lured yet He did not sin.
this is how scripture says each man is tempted:

every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
(James 1:14)
so taking that position would be saying Jesus lusted.
if i put that together with what He preaches in the sermon on the mount, would this position further be saying that He sinned in His heart?


IMO Jesus was 'tested' by Satan, not 'tempted'
the word in Hebrews 4:15 (('
. . . in every way, just as we are, yet without sin')) means also to prove, to attempt or try, to test - and it is the same word in Matthew 4, Mark 1, Luke 4. it's the same word here:

When Jesus then lifted up His eyes, and saw a great company come unto Him, He saith unto Philip,
whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?
And this He said to prove him: for He himself knew what He would do.
(John 6:5-6)
you wouldn't say Jesus was 'tempting' Philip, would you?
but Satan did not ken Who he dealt with, and tested Him, probing to find fault, to arouse lust and cause Him to sin, if it were possible.


and @JamOn Jesus isn't telling a 'white lie' by asking Philip this either, even though He knows the answer full well. it shows how that God asks questions, just like 'where are you?' to Adam & Woman in the garden, He knows the answer, but He is asking in order to demonstrate something of those He is asking. the woman who reached out to touch the hem of His robe, who in the crowd took any notice of her? but when He put the question - then everyone did.

Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered
(Proverbs 21:13)
Christ was teaching. saving. opening the eyes of the blind.

I think Jesus asked about whom it was that touched His cloak so as to give the one who did the opportunity to prove to Him if they were honest about it or not. Which would signal then their motives.
not for her. He could have turned to her and asked her directly if she touched Him.
and not for Him - Jesus Christ is never not God. He knows.
this is for the sake of everyone else that heard Him say it