He is God so yes he had divine powers. He obviously did not use them in any particular way worth of having been recorded in the gospels. But he was fully God and fully man, he did not need to earn his power.
This is a good insight. Jesus was born just as us and suffered through all the pains of life as we do. As Php 2 describes, He was sinless, but He laid aside His glory and walked this life as a man. It wasn't until His baptism, when the Holy Spirit not only descended on Him, but also "remained" - a thing that had never happened before - that supernatural powers flowed through Him. This is how people could even look at Him and not die - He was not in His glory, the powers He had were solely through the Holy Spirit.
Scripture only informs us that he was wise beyond His years. His miracles were purposely orchestrated to prove His Divinity. The display of God's power, through His Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth, God in the flesh, was perfectly planed at the time it was needed to fulfill scripture to its fullest.
If you read the Infant Gospel of Thomas, the answer is yes. I wouldn't advise reading it though, it is like a really bad fantasy novel.
However, it is also pointed out that when he was 12 and confounded the elders in the Temple, Jesus was aware of his divinity and his mission, so I have to doubt that "when he was baptized" theory. Additionally, he deliberately suppressed his divine authority in submitting to captivity, false charges, and finally a crucifixion.
I did think of that, but he does not display powers until after the Baptism. That may have been a voluntary thing, but it is not clear.
I think He did have powers since He was a kid, from my understanding, when He turned water into wine it was His first public display. Many versions say that was the first time He "revealed His glory". I believe it is referring publicly because a few verses prior His mom told him they ran out of wine. She could've been implying, "I've seeing you doing it at home. We need more wine". But we don't really have much information about His younger years.
Yep. The usual thinking is that the baptism was meant as the kickoff to his public ministry but not that it made possible the use of his divine powers, etc.
That's right. You didn't say that and I didn't meant to imply that you did. My point was that any alternating may seem to conflict with the standard Christian belief that he was at all times both fully human and also fully divine/God.
Suspect maybe, but it is a well known theological idea: Kenosis based on the Phillipians passage quoted by someone else here where Jesus 'made himself nothing'.
