Thursday, February 7, 2008

Jesus' humanity part 1

I wanted to explore the idea of Jesus' state of humanity/divinity. To begin, understand that discovery is an essential part of the human experience. Discovery of the world around you, and, as we all remember through the ever dreaded teenage years, discovery of self. If discovery is an essential part of being human, and Jesus was human, then Jesus had to discover the world around him. Which is significant because one could argue that Jesus, while on earth at least, was not omniscient. Which means he had to make judgment calls on people and his environment. So even though Jesus was there when God created the world, and saw how it was made, Jesus, at some point in his childhood, had to learn that fire was hot, that gravity always works, etc. Did Jesus struggle with his own identity? When did Jesus discover that he was the son of God? Did God speak to him and fill him in on the details, or was this a gradual self-discovery? Was a specific date and time predestined for this knowledge to set in, or was it a gradual process? What was the manner in which it came to pass? An intriguing thought is this: since all we know of our own existence is based on memories (think on that awhile), did memories of being "up there" with God gradually or suddenly come to him? Did Jesus suddenly recall vividly creating the world? (According to our Bible he was: Gen. 1:26 and others.) This instills a sense of irony: man remembering creating man! There will be another part to this discussion, but I save it for a different post due to a different direction taken.

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