Hey all,
Well, I was up at about 3am this morning, unable to sleep, and as I always do at these times, I think of things, and just get thinking. Well, I was thinking about how Jesus is part God, and how God is omnipresent and omnicient. Jesus was part God, and I know from Biblical accounts that he forsaw the future on several occassions (ie, Peter's denial, his own death). What I was wondering is, could Jesus, like God can, read the minds of all the people around him? Did he know the words that would come out of their mouths before they spoke? Did Jesus know those people with whom he dealt with, their history and everything about them laid out like an open book for Jesus to see? That must have driven him nuts!! I know I would lose it pretty quick, especially in a room full of people, me being able to read their minds all at once and knowing them inside and out better than they know themselves, that is a lot. Or was Jesus limited in this? He obviously didn't go around saying every single thing that would happen before it did, such as "Hey Paul, you are going to have a medium sized loaf of bread for lunch, along with just a bit of tuna, but the tuna will be bad, and you'll have to spit it out." No, Jesus seemed to pick and choose the occasions for telling of future events. But how would Jesus deal, I mean its easier to imagine God being able to, as He is not bound by time, but Jesus was. Did his being able to know the lives of others only extend to those he came in contact with, or did he know everyone on the face of the planet, what they were thinking at say 2:24 in the afternoon?
This has always perplexed me, just how much of God's omnicience and omnipresence wore off on Jesus, since he was a direct link to God.
Well, I was up at about 3am this morning, unable to sleep, and as I always do at these times, I think of things, and just get thinking. Well, I was thinking about how Jesus is part God, and how God is omnipresent and omnicient. Jesus was part God, and I know from Biblical accounts that he forsaw the future on several occassions (ie, Peter's denial, his own death). What I was wondering is, could Jesus, like God can, read the minds of all the people around him? Did he know the words that would come out of their mouths before they spoke? Did Jesus know those people with whom he dealt with, their history and everything about them laid out like an open book for Jesus to see? That must have driven him nuts!! I know I would lose it pretty quick, especially in a room full of people, me being able to read their minds all at once and knowing them inside and out better than they know themselves, that is a lot. Or was Jesus limited in this? He obviously didn't go around saying every single thing that would happen before it did, such as "Hey Paul, you are going to have a medium sized loaf of bread for lunch, along with just a bit of tuna, but the tuna will be bad, and you'll have to spit it out." No, Jesus seemed to pick and choose the occasions for telling of future events. But how would Jesus deal, I mean its easier to imagine God being able to, as He is not bound by time, but Jesus was. Did his being able to know the lives of others only extend to those he came in contact with, or did he know everyone on the face of the planet, what they were thinking at say 2:24 in the afternoon?
This has always perplexed me, just how much of God's omnicience and omnipresence wore off on Jesus, since he was a direct link to God.
About the eating, I didn't mean it like that, it was just an example of Jesus predicting everyday things. I was getting at the fact that Jesus probably wouldn't go around predicting everyday things (ie, what Peter has for lunch) to just kind of "wow" the disciples. He seemed to save his "prediction" abillities for special times, as in Peter's denial and his own death.
