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Originally Posted by Nina
Why do You think that Jesus doesn't know when He's coming back?
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Hello Nina,
I think that Jesus, within the context of his humanity, was a genuine human being with all of the limitations associated with being human- including not knowing all things. We know from the Scriptures that he "grew" in wisdom and "learned" obedience (Lu 2:52;
Heb 5:8). This would mean that his human mind underwent normal human development just like any other human's would.
The human mind does not have the capacity to allow for the property of omniscience to operate- it simply isn't big enough! External to this context, though, he continued to exist as he always had- as unlimited Deity and with an omniscient divine mind.
The knowledge that Jesus did have would have been normal human experiential knowledge, and the exception to this would have been that knowledge which would have been supernaturally revealed to his mind through the operation of the Gifts of the Spirit. Jesus, as a man, was anointed by the Spirit, and that without measure (
Jn 3:34; Ac 10:38).
So, for Jesus to say he didn't know the hour of his coming, or when he asked his disciples "who touched me" (Lu 8:45), he was expressing a genuine lack of knowledge, because the divine property of omniscience was not active in his human context.
Hope that all made sense.
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