Was Jesus still God when He indicated that even He didn't know that day and hour?
Jesus did not all of a sudden
become God with a capital G, rather his devinity is uncreated and that according to John 1:1 he is God with God, who are the one in the same being, yet are two different personas.
Jesus did not indicate that he did not know. Read the KJV Matthew version. Matthew was an accountant and his accurate genealogy list at the start of his book is an indication of his accurate bean counting skills as an accountant. The fact that Matthew does not record Jesus as having said that, is certainty that Jesus did not say that he didn't know.
However Mark adds his own spin by using a coined phrase of "NOT SO (neither) the Son" to separate Jesus from the category of human beings. There would be no point to add Not So the Son after saying that human beings don't know. The language also uses a variant of NOT SO (neither) for the Father also by saying NO NOT SO the Father. So Mark excludes deity from being ignorant of the hour.
Jewish phrases like their writing from right to left, can gave opposite meaning to the meaning in english when read out, without considering the context of Jewish culture.
If you consider the word in the Greek, you will discover this as long as you stop reading it from an English cultural context, you will discover the intended meaning.
3761 oudé (from
3756 /ou, "not" and
1161 /dé, "moreover") – properly,
moreover not,
When you consider the term used for the Father...
3361 mḗ (a particle which functions as an adverb) –
no, not.
So you get......
NOT the Son, NO NOT the Father.
The transliteration misleads people in not using the proper term, but instead one that sounds correctly, rather than means correctly. This is the big difference in interpreting the phrase correctly.
So the only terms used for the Son and the Father incorporate NOT, yet the Father has the extreme appointed NOT by the NO NOT.
