Did Jesus Have Divine Powers As A Kid?

[eye_spy_the_cia]

Hi,

Did Jesus have "divine/supernatural" abilities or was able to perform miracles or do other "supernatural" acts such as walk on water or turn water into whine or change the weather or heal people, etc BEFORE starting His ministry?

If not, why did He only gain these "divine/supernatural" abilities later in life? Why didn't He have them when He was younger? Did He have to be a certain age to be able to gain these "divine/supernatural" powers or were there criteria/conditions He had to meet before gaining these powers?

Thanks for your time!

 

[Radagast]

Did Jesus have "divine/supernatural" abilities or was able to perform miracles or do other "supernatural" acts such as walk on water or turn water into whine or change the weather or heal people, etc BEFORE starting His ministry?

We are not told much about Jesus's life as a child.

John 2:11 suggests that the miracle at Cana was Jesus's first miracle: "This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him."

John 2 also suggests that the miracles were part of the ministry. In fact, in John 2:4, Jesus seems kind of sad about His first miracle, because it was the first step on the road to Calvary ("My hour has not yet come," Jesus says).

 

[Dave L]

Hi,

Did Jesus have "divine/supernatural" abilities or was able to perform miracles or do other "supernatural" acts such as walk on water or turn water into whine or change the weather or heal people, etc BEFORE starting His ministry?

If not, why did He only gain these "divine/supernatural" abilities later in life? Why didn't He have them when He was younger? Did He have to be a certain age to be able to gain these "divine/supernatural" powers or were there criteria/conditions He had to meet before gaining these powers?

Thanks for your time!

It says turning water into wine was his first.

 

[disciple Clint]

Hi,

Did Jesus have "divine/supernatural" abilities or was able to perform miracles or do other "supernatural" acts such as walk on water or turn water into whine or change the weather or heal people, etc BEFORE starting His ministry?

If not, why did He only gain these "divine/supernatural" abilities later in life? Why didn't He have them when He was younger? Did He have to be a certain age to be able to gain these "divine/supernatural" powers or were there criteria/conditions He had to meet before gaining these powers?

Thanks for your time!

Since Jesus was born 100% man and 100% God he would have the powers of God because he is God.

 

[Dave L]

Since Jesus was born 100% man and 100% God he would have the powers of God because he is God.

But unlearned emotionally driven babies wielding God's power?

 

[disciple Clint]

But unlearned emotionally driven babies wielding God's power?

God had total control of His power. The Word assumed human nature and a human body, This was an addition to Him there are two natures, God and human, and one person Jesus.

 

[Dave L]

God had total control of His power. The Word assumed human nature and a human body, This was an addition to Him there are two natures, God and human, and one person Jesus.

Where does it suggest he did miracles as a baby?

 

[disciple Clint]

Where does it suggest he did miracles as a baby?

Who said He did miracles as a baby, where did that idea come from and what does it have to do with the Theology of Christology and the Hypostatic Union?

 

[Dave L]

Who said He did miracles as a baby, where did that idea come from and what does it have to do with the Theology of Christology and the Hypostatic Union?

"Did Jesus have Divine Powers as a Kid"...ring a bell?

 

[disciple Clint]

"Did Jesus have Divine Powers as a Kid"...ring a bell?

He was God from day one, does that not answer your question?

 

[BobRyan]

Hi,

Did Jesus have "divine/supernatural" abilities or was able to perform miracles or do other "supernatural" acts such as walk on water or turn water into whine or change the weather or heal people, etc BEFORE starting His ministry?

If not, why did He only gain these "divine/supernatural" abilities later in life? Why didn't He have them when He was younger? Did He have to be a certain age to be able to gain these "divine/supernatural" powers or were there criteria/conditions He had to meet before gaining these powers?

Thanks for your time!

He did not. He had to learn to talk, to eat, to walk, to throw a ball and catch it just like everyone else.

He was fully God and fully human - but the infant was not given infinite power to create and destroy worlds as it wished. There was some built in protection. Jesus said "I can do nothing of my own" - that is the "rules" under which the divine nature of Jesus was operating -- and His divine nature would not be "tricked" by the infant human nature into doing something unwise.

on the cross in his human nature He says "I thirst" -- infinite God would not have that as a problem.

1 John 2
3 By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5 but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: 6 the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.

He is our example as well as Lord and Savior - and that cannot be if he was just proving that infinite God would not have a problem dealing with the same trials that face mere-man.

 

[Dave L]

He was God from day one, does that not answer your question?

Jesus took on the limits of being a baby, and then a man.

 

[disciple Clint]

He did not. He had to learn to talk, to eat, to walk, to throw a ball and catch it just like everyone else.

He was fully God and fully human - but the infant was not given infinite power to create and destroy worlds as it wished. There was some built in protection.

Jesus was God, He could have done anything He wanted to do, He allowed His human nature to behave in the normal human ways but His power was not limited at anytime. Do you not believe that Jesus is God?

 

[BobRyan]

Jesus was God, He could have done anything He wanted to do, He allowed His human nature to behave in the normal human ways but His power was not limited at anytime. Do you not believe that Jesus is God?

Is that your response to me saying "He is fully God and fully human"??

I sometimes refer to Him as "The second person of the Godhead" --

 

[disciple Clint]

Jesus took on the limits of being a baby, and then a man.

Yes He humbled Himself and only used His abilities as God when He needed or wanted to use them.

 

[BobRyan]

Jesus took on the limits of being a baby, and then a man.

True. In Phil 2 we see this
5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped

( a thing to be clung to and refusing to make any sacrifice for others that might put Him at risk)

, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

 

[disciple Clint]

Is that your response to me saying "He is fully God and fully human"??

I sometimes refer to Him as "The second person of the Godhead" --

OK so we agree Jesus is God, Who can limits Gods powers?

 

[BobRyan]

Yes He humbled Himself and only used His abilities as God when He needed or wanted to use them.

He every clearly said in John 14 that He was limiting Himself to only say and do what the Father directed

 

[BobRyan]

OK so we agree Jesus is God, Who can limits Gods powers?

God can -- of His own free will

 

[disciple Clint]

God can -- of His own free will

which means that Jesus who is God can do what He wants to do when He wants to do it. He may elect not to but God is not limited in any way and Jesus us not subordinate to the Father, they are both equally GOD