A Question
Here’s a question that I would like to throw out to all of you who read my blog. It was spurred on by a conversation that I had during our Men’s group study of the Gospel of Mark. Here it is.
How can Jesus not know things that God knows if He(Jesus) is fully God and fully man?
If you think you have an answer to this let me know. Thanks.
How can Jesus not know things that God knows if He(Jesus) is fully God and fully man?
If you think you have an answer to this let me know. Thanks.
posted by Paul at 1:46 PM
2 Comments:
I have been thinking about this one for a while...I have nothing to say. Sorry Paul.
I was actually just reading about this in Knowing God by J.I. Packer. I won't be able to do it justice, so if you have it, it's on page 61-63. You must have the book since every "good" IV person does. :) I'll quote part of it here:
"Part of the revealed mystery of the Godhead is that the three Persons stand in a fixed relation to each other. The Son appears in the Gospels not as an independent divine person, but as a dependent one, who thinks and acts only and wholly as the Father directs. "The Son can do nothing by himself"; "By myself I can do nothing" (John 5:19, 30). "I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me" (John 6:38)...It is the nature of the second person of the Trinity to acknowledge the authority and submit to the good pleasure of the first. That is why he declares himself to be the Son and the first person to be his Father. Though coequal with the Father in eternity, power and glory, it is natural to him to play the Son's part and to find all his joy in doing his Father's will, just as it is natural to the first person of the Trinity to plan and initiate the works of the Godhead and natural to the third person to proceed from the Father and the Son to do their joint bidding."
There is more, but I need to take a shower before Becca wakes up from her nap. :)
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