God is a coward

[jack]

Sorry, not really. (Well, not necessarily. Uh, I mean, I didn't have any reason to say that, other than as a humorous example of a controversial subject. Argue amongst yourselves if you so wish, but don't blame me. Just look at this bracket, it's amazing how many words saying nothing takes up :))

Where is everyone? My "inbox" has been nearly unclogged of lj updates recently -- have you all become productive or something? Have you all moved to chiark or myspace?

ETA: OK, that seemed to work :)

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* I have heard conflicting opinions from people exactly how much Jesus was supposed to know about his God-ness during his life. Was it mostly faith, like for everyone else, but he correctly had a lot of faith? Did God talk to him and explain everything? Did he know everything God knew? All his life, or slowly revealed?

It's a difficult one and one I'm not sure we have the information for. In the gospels there are moments -- the visit to the temple (my father's house); before Abraham was, I AM; the I AM statements -- when somthing of that knowledge is there but we don't know his thoughts. He would have known his history, the story of his birth, that he was called to something. John the Baptist is another interesting case in this. He also grew up with a vocation from a miraculous birth. Samuel similarly has a vocation from his childhood (so does Samson but that goes a bit wrong). You also have Phillipians 2:6 with its talk of his self-emptying which shows an early way of trying to get our heads around this one.