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Yahuwah’s knowledge and understanding are beyond measure. Indeed, Scripture describes Yahuwah in incomparable terms. For example, it says Yahuwah knows all things,1 and His understanding is infinite and inscrutable.2 The Bible also says that Yahuwah knows the heart's secrets and understands every intent of the thoughts.3 In addition, it says that Yahuwah reveals profound and hidden things.4 He also knows what we will say before we say it and what we need before we ask Him.5 Truly, who can fathom the depths of Yahuwah’s wisdom and knowledge:
Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of Yahuwah! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
Yahuwah is omniscient
Omniscient: 1. having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight; 2. possessed of universal or complete knowledge
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Some have termed such divine knowledge as omniscience, defined as “having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.”6 Although not stated in any of the creeds from the seven ecumenical Church councils, it is assumed by those who uphold the doctrine of the Trinity that each member of the Godhead is himself omniscient. The reason is that since God the Father is all-knowing, and since Yahushua and the Holy Spirit are equal to the Father, they too are omniscient.7
Yahushua Didn’t Know Everything
If we are to be faithful followers of Christ, however, we must deal with the contradiction between Church dogma and the word of Yahuwah. We must not overlook or downplay the fact that Scripture reveals some things that Yahushua didn’t know.
For example, when the woman with the issue of blood touched the hem of his garment, Yahushua didn’t know who it was:
Luke 8:45-46 And Yahushua said, “Who is the one who touched Me?” And while they were all denying it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing in on You.” 46 But Yahushua said, “Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had gone out of Me.”
How could Yahushua have the power to heal the woman yet not know who had touched him? In addition, Yahushua knew that Lazarus had died even though his sisters had only sent word that he was sick. Yet Yahushua did not know where his tomb was located.8
John 11:34 and [Yahushua] said, “Where have you laid him?” They *said to Him, “Lord, come and see.”
Compared to raising Lazarus from the dead, one would think that knowing the location of his grave would be easy, that is, if you are God. Nevertheless, Yahushua had to ask.
Yahushua didn’t know, but he did know?
A contradiction exists between the claim that Yahushua is omniscient and passages such as these that reveal his lack of knowledge. Some try to resolve the inconsistency by saying that Yahushua knew these things but feigned ignorance. But such an explanation makes Yahushua disingenuous and a liar at worst. We must be careful not to demean him to remedy the contradiction that orthodoxy presents. Instead, we must address the contradiction Biblically.
A contradiction exists between the claim that Yahushua is omniscient and passages that reveal his lack of knowledge.
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There are more significant areas of concern regarding things Yahushua didn’t know. For instance, when Yahushua was twelve, his parents found him in the temple, where he was receiving instruction from the teachers of the law:
Luke 2:46-47 Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. 47 And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers.
Later, we read in John’s account that even as an adult Yahushua didn’t know everything. The man from Nazareth said that he was taught by the Father. To be sure, the Great Teacher had a Teacher:
John 8:28 So Yahushua said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.
Yahushua then taught others what Yahuwah had taught him:
John 7:16-17 So Yahushua answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. 17 “If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of Yahuwah or whether I speak from Myself.
John 14:24 “He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.
We should find it troublesome that the Word of Yahuwah had to be taught what words to say. Unfortunately, many scholars do not adequately deal with the fact that Yahushua grew in wisdom9 or that he was taught by Yahuwah. For example, popular Bible teacher and author A.W. Tozer’s argument for Yahuwah’s omniscience inadvertently negates that of Christ’s:
To say that God is omniscient, he possesses perfect knowledge and, therefore, has no need to learn. But it is more: it is to say that God has never learned and cannot learn. The Scriptures teach that God has never learned from anyone…From there it is only one step to the conclusion that God cannot learn. Could God at any time or in any manner receive into His knowledge that He did not possess and had not possessed from eternity, He would be imperfect and less than himself. To think of a God who must sit at the feet of a teacher, even though that teacher be an archangel or a seraph, is to think of someone other than the Most High God, make of heaven and earth.10
Tozer, a Trinitarian who identifies “God” as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,11 not only contradicts Yahushua, his discourse disqualifies the Messiah from being God. Tozer says Yahuwah cannot learn and has never learned. Yet, once again Scripture says that Yahushua had some things to learn:
Hebrews 5:8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.
"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." (Matthew 24:36)
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Perhaps even more damaging to the supposition that Yahushua is the all-knowing-God is the fact that Yahushua didn’t know when he would return to inaugurate the kingdom of Yahuwah:
Matthew 24:36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.12
If Yahushua is truly Yahuwah, how could he not know the day of his return and the commencement of his earthly reign? Indeed, Yahushua’s statement that he didn’t know the day or the hour refutes orthodoxy’s claims that he knows all things. But that’s not the only problem Trinitarians face because Yahushua isn’t the only member of the triune deity to be in the dark about the most significant event in the history of the world. By saying that the “Father alone knows” means that the Holy Spirit doesn’t know either. Are we to reason that it’s because the so-called third member of the Trinity set aside his omniscience? Or is Yahushua somehow an unreliable witness? Can we trust Yahushua when he says that the time of his return was established by the Father’s authority, meaning not by his own or that of the Spirit?Acts 1:6-7 So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;13
When confronted with the glaring discrepancy between orthodoxy and Scripture, some quickly point to passages where Yahushua knows “unknowable” things. They do so to prove he is God despite his lack of knowledge. For example, some point to passages that say Yahushua knew the thoughts and hearts of men as evidence that he is Yahuwah:
Matthew 9:3-4 And some of the scribes said to themselves, “This fellow blasphemes.” 4 And Yahushua knowing their thoughts said, “Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?
However, such knowledge, as remarkable as it is, does not negate the truth that Yahushua lacked knowledge in other areas. To be truly omniscient, one must know all things, not just some remarkable things. Moreover, as we shall see momentarily, Yahushua could have known such things in different ways besides omniscience.
Unscriptural Attempts to Resolve the Contradiction
The primary means by which orthodoxy tries to resolve the problem is to appeal to the theory of the hypostatic union, the notion that Yahushua possessed two natures, one human and the other divine. They attribute Yahushua’s lack of knowledge to his human nature, speculating that his supposed divine nature fully possessed the knowledge that his human nature was unaware of.14 This theory, however, is not in Scripture. Instead, it was developed over time by the Church Fathers, who reasoned that Yahushua must have had dual natures so as to do and experience things they perceived only a human or the divine could do. One such Church Father, Athanasius of Alexandria (298-373 AD), rationalized that even though Yahushua said he didn’t know the hour or the day, he actually did know. But this fourth-century Church Father, who appealed to the dual nature theory, flatly contradicts Yahushua who said he didn’t know:
Orthodoxy attributes Yahushua’s lack of knowledge to his human nature, speculating that his supposed divine nature fully possessed the knowledge that his human nature was unaware of.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
Now, why it was that, though he knew, He did not tell His disciples plainly at that time, no one may be curious where He has been silent; for Who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor? But why, though He knew, He said, ‘no, not the Son knows,” this I think none of the faithful is ignorant [namely] that He made this as those other declarations as man by reason of the flesh. For this as before is not the Word’s deficiency, but of the human nature whose property it is to be ignorant…15
Unlike the early Jewish Christians who understood Yahushua to be a man, the Hellenized Church Fathers viewed Yahushua in metaphysical terms, creating confusion and controversy for generations to come. This is why reading the Bible as a Jewish book is so important.
In addition, others have tried to resolve Yahushua’s lack of knowledge by interpreting Philippians 2:7 to mean that Yahushua set aside or emptied himself of certain divine attributes when he was incarnated. Known as the kenotic theory, it too creates problems such as how Yahuwah emptied himself of divine qualities and yet remained God. Or how does the God-Man keep his human nature from availing itself of divine knowledge? Most significantly, Paul’s letter does not specify that Yahushua emptied himself of divine knowledge or attributes, nor does the rest of Scripture.
The early Church did not believe Yahushua to be God-incarnate. Instead, they naturally understood him to be a man sent by Yahuwah to be the Messiah. Professor of Biblical studies, Michael Goulder, explains:
The truth is that Jewish sources never thought of Messiah as divine or pre-existent—in mainstream Judaism, he is the descendant of David’s covenant in 2 Samuel 7… If . . . [Yahushua] thought of himself as Messiah it is this human figure that he had in mind, with the traditional terms “the Son of God,” “the Son of Man,” “Lord”—all used of human Jewish kings in the Psalter (2:7; 80:18; 110:1, etc.)… Being a monotheist, . . . [Yahushua] cannot have thought of himself sanely as being God and in the more primitive traditions he always speaks of himself in the human, messianic categories… [He did not think] he was God, but that he was God’s viceroy… It is the bias of orthodoxy constantly to overlook middle terms. The earliest church [did not view him] as God the Son, but as the man whom God raised up and [assigned] the Holy Spirit to pour out upon the church (Acts 2:33).16
Indeed, Yahushua never claimed to be Yahuwah, but affirmed that the Father is the only true God while he was the human Christ.
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Indeed, Yahushua never claimed to be Yahuwah, but affirmed that the Father is the only true God while he was the human Christ:
John 17:1-3 Yahushua spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father…3 “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Yahushua Christ whom You have sent.
John 8:40 “But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from Yahuwah; this Abraham did not do.
Moreover, Peter and Paul never taught that Yahushua was Yahuwah, rather they said he was a man chosen by Yahuwah to be the Messiah (Christ):
Acts 2:22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Yahushua the Nazarene, a man attested to you by Yahuwah with miracles and wonders and signs which Yahuwah performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know—
Acts 17:31 because He [Yahuwah the Father] has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising Him from the dead.”
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between Yahuwah and men, the man Christ Yahushua,
"For there is one God, and one mediator also between Yahuwah and men, the man Christ Yahushua." (1 Tim. 2:5)
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Even demons understood that Yahushua was not Yahuwah, but the one sent by Yahuwah:
Luke 4:34 “Let us alone! What business do we have with each other, Yahushua of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of Yahuwah!”
Moreover, Catholic historians have observed that the doctrine of Yahushua’s omniscience (what did he know and when did he know it) developed over time.17 Professor of Bible and Theology Kerry McRoberts’ observation supports this:
In the second century the apostolic fathers displayed an undeveloped Christology. The relationship between the two natures in Christ, the human and the divine, is not clearly articulated in their works.18
In other words, even as late as the 2nd century, the theory of Yahushua having two natures is not spelled out in the writings of these prolific authors. Furthermore, by the 5th century, Church historians understood that the matter of Yahushua’s omniscience remained undecided. Even after the Nestorian controversy19, there was still no unanimous belief regarding Yahushua’s omniscience. Moreover, during the early Scholastic period (c. 1100 AD) the matter was still being debated.20 Thus, to say Yahushua was omniscient in his divine nature but lacked full knowledge in his human nature is decidedly a post-Biblical development.
How Could Yahushua Have Known the Unknowable?
Even today, orthodox Christianity has difficulty in understanding, articulating, and defending its complicated dual nature position. Father Jim Martin says:
Now here is a tough theological question. If . . . [Yahushua] is fully divine, which he is, wouldn’t he know all things? On the other hand, if . . . [Yahushua] is fully human, which he is, he had a human consciousness, and so he needed to be taught something before he could know it…The question of . . . [Yahushua] ’s knowledge is a very complicated one.21
On the contrary, the Bible offers clear, uncomplicated answers on how Yahushua could know certain “unknowable” things without being omniscient.
Yahushua was full of the Holy Spirit
Scripture tells us that Yahushua was anointed by the Spirit of Yahuwah without limit:22
John 3:34 “For He [Yahushua] whom Yahuwah has sent speaks the words of Yahuwah; for He gives the Spirit without measure.
Part of the anointing Yahushua received from Yahuwah was a spirit of wisdom, understanding, and knowledge.
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Part of the anointing Yahushua received from Yahuwah was a spirit of wisdom, understanding, and knowledge:
Isaiah 11:1-2 Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, And a branch from his roots will bear fruit. 2 The Spirit of Yahuwah will rest on Him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and strength, The spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahuwah.
Why would Yahuwah need to be filled with the Holy Spirit? It is illogical. On the other hand, Yahushua of Nazareth would undoubtedly need the Spirit of Yahuwah to fulfill his ministry. Interestingly, even after being exalted to Yahuwah’s right hand, Yahushua still received knowledge from Yahuwah. Many erroneously believe that Yahushua is the source of the revelation John received regarding end-time events. However, the text says that Yahuwah gave the revelation to Yahushua, who then delivered the message to John via an angel:
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Yahushua Christ, which Yahuwah gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John…
If Yahushua inherently possesses all knowledge, it makes no sense that Yahuwah would have to give him revelation knowledge, especially after his exaltation. But in each of the letters Yahushua sends to the seven churches, he says, “hear what the Spirit says.”23 The Holy Spirit, Spirit of Yahuwah, and Spirit of the Father are synonymous terms for Yahuwah the Father. The Spirit of Yahuwah gave Yahushua knowledge he didn’t possess. Yahushua, in turn, presented it to John via his angel.
Yahushua, the Prophet
One of the expressions of the Spirit’s ministry in Yahushua’s life was that of prophecy. We know that Yahushua is the prophet Moses promised Yahuwah would send.24 The Jews recognized Yahushua in this Yahuwah-given ministry:
Luke 24:19 And He said to them, “What things?” And they said to Him, “The things about Yahushua the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of Yahuwah and all the people
As Yahuwah’s prophet, Yahushua would, of course, be given knowledge that he otherwise could not have known.
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As Yahuwah’s prophet, Yahushua would, of course, be given knowledge that he otherwise could not have known. For example, when Yahushua told the Samaritan woman things that were not possible for him to know in the natural realm, she credited him with being a prophet:
John 4:15-19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.” 16 He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Yahushua *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” 19 The woman *said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet…29 “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?”
The woman at the well understood that Christ would have a prophetic ministry; that is, he would know things by the Spirit of Yahuwah that were outside his natural ability to know. But instead of crediting Yahuwah with speaking to His prophet, which would be a logical and Biblical conclusion, some want to turn Yahushua’s prophetic knowledge into divine omniscience.
Similarly, Peter knew things about Ananias and Sapphira that he otherwise could not have known:
Acts 5:1-3 and 7-9 1 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, 2 and kept back some of the price for himself, with his wife’s full knowledge, and bringing a portion of it, he laid it at the apostles’ feet. 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?…7 Now there elapsed an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8 And Peter responded to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for such and such a price?” And she said, “Yes, that was the price.” 9 Then Peter said to her, “Why is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out as well.“
Peter knew Ananias and Sapphira were lying, but no one assumed it was because he was omniscient.
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Peter knew this couple was lying, but no one assumed it was because he was omniscient. We reasonably conclude that Peter knew because Yahuwah had revealed it to him. After all, Scripture says that Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit.25
In addition, the prophet Agabus knew there was going to be a great famine, not because he was omniscient, but because the Spirit told him:
Acts 11:27-28 Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 One of them named Agabus stood up and began to indicate by the Spirit that there would certainly be a great famine all over the world. And this took place in the reign of Claudius.
The same could be said of Elisha, Daniel, and other prophets to whom Yahuwah “reveals His secret counsel.”26
The Holy Scriptures
Some of the things that are attributed to Yahushua’s omniscience can be explained by his knowledge of Yahuwah’s Word. For example, on the night Yahushua was betrayed, we’re told that Yahushua knew all the things that were going to happen: 27
John 18:4 So Yahushua, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”
Some wonder how Yahushua could have known this unless he was Yahuwah. However, Yahushua was a student of Scripture. According to one source, Yahushua quoted the Old Testament seventy-eight times.28 As such, he knew of the prophecies regarding the Messiah and how he would be despised, forsaken, a man of sorrows, scourged, and even that his betrayer would be paid thirty pieces of silver.29 Could Yahuwah have given him additional information? In all likelihood, He did, but Yahushua knew enough from Scripture to be aware of what to expect.
John 19:28 After this, Yahushua, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, *said, “I am thirsty.”
Some of the things that are attributed to Yahushua’s omniscience can be explained by his knowledge of Yahuwah’s Word.
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In another example, we’re told that Yahushua knew what was in man:
John 2:24-25 But Yahushua, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men, 25 and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.
How could Yahushua have known what was hidden in all men? By reading Scripture:
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?30
It’s quite likely that the Father gave Yahushua additional insight, but there is much Yahushua would have learned just from reading the sacred texts.
Human Reason
Some of what Yahushua knew came by way of observation, reason and perception; things that we all possess. For example:
Matthew 22:18-19 But Yahushua perceived their malice, and said, “Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites? 19 “Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.
The word perceived in Greek is ginôskô, and it means to come to know, recognize, or perceive. The same word is used when one looks at the sky to know (perceive) what the weather will be.31 Or when the Pharisees heard Yahushua’s parables, they understood (perceived) that he was speaking about them.32 Thus, it is important to credit Yahushua’s human reasoning when appropriate.
Misunderstanding of the Text
Another reason Yahushua is assumed to have an innate special knowledge is that we simply misunderstand the context of a particular passage. For example, some rely on the following passage to “prove” Yahushua is omniscient:
John 16:30 “Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we believe that You came from Yahuwah.”33
Note that the disciples believed Yahushua’s knowledge was proof that he had come from Yahuwah, not that he was Yahuwah.
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Upon closer examination, the text does not support the position that Yahushua is the all-knowing God. Note that the disciples believed Yahushua’s knowledge was proof that he had come from Yahuwah, not that he was Yahuwah.
Others may offer this verse as an additional proof text:
John 21:17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Yahushua said to him, “Tend My sheep.
If the phrase you know all things is an indicator of omniscience and deity, then Yahushua’s followers must be gods as well:
Jude 1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.
In both of these passages, the scope of all things is determined by the context. the first passage, all things refer to Peter’s affection and devotion to Christ. In contrast, the latter verse refers to the judgment to come upon the unbelieving and the ungodly.Yahushua credits Yahuwah
Far from being omniscient, Yahushua credits Yahuwah with divine knowledge. In a confrontation with the Pharisees, Yahushua rebuked them for their self-righteousness and warned that Yahuwah knew their hearts:
Luke 16:14-15 Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him. 15 And He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but Yahuwah knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of Yahuwah.
Yahushua credits Yahuwah, whom he identifies as the Father,34 with knowing the hearts of men.
Conclusion
Although orthodoxy has conferred an innate divine knowledge upon Yahushua, Scripture says otherwise. Yahushua knew many things beyond his ability to know, not because he is omniscient, but because Yahuwah revealed them to him. As one author says:
When we find a contradiction between our dogma and the word of Yahuwah, let us examine the Scriptures and hold fast to that which is true. For it’s possible that which man calls heresy, Yahuwah calls orthodoxy.
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So, Scripture reveals that Christ only knew what He had learned as a man and what His Father revealed to Him through His Spirit. Since our Father in Heaven knows all things, then Christ could also effectively know all things “if” the Spirit of God revealed it to Him. Thus, if Yahushua did not know the hour of His return, it could only be because His Father had not revealed this to Him, and we are not told the reason why this was the case.35
The various theories that explain how Yahushua could be both omniscient and lacks knowledge are not found in the Bible. Moreover, they are complex, confusing, and inadequate. Unfortunately, orthodoxy has cast the heavy anvil of heresy upon the backs of those who choose not to accept the extra-Biblical explanations. As Pope Damascus said in 382 AD, one year after the doctrine of the Trinity was established as the official dogma of the Church:
If anyone does not say that the Son of God is the true God just as [His] Father is the true God [and] He is all-powerful and omniscient and equal to the Father, he is a heretic.36
When we find a contradiction between our dogma and the word of Yahuwah, let us examine the Scriptures and hold fast to that which is true. For it’s possible that which man calls heresy, Yahuwah calls orthodoxy. As William Whiston (1667-1752), associate of Sir Isaac Newton, once said:
There is but One Supreme, Living, Eternal, Infinite, Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Invisible God; the Father of our Lord Yahushua Christ…37
Amen.
1 1 John 3:20.
2Psalm 147:5 and Isaiah 40:28.
3 Psalm 44:21 and Acts 15:8; 1 Chronicles 28:9.
4 Daniel 2:22
5Psalm 139:4; Matthew 6:8
6“omniscient” Dictionary.com, accessed 9-6-19, https://www.dictionary.com/browse/omniscient
7 The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD determined Yahushua to be co-equal with God the Father. The Council of Constantinople in 381 AD determined the Holy Spirit to be co-equal with God the Father and God the Son.
8 John 11:14 and 34.
9Luke 2:40, 52.
10 A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, chapter 10 (HarperCollins, 1961).
11 Tozer, chapter 4.
12 See also Mark 13:32 and Zechariah 14:7.
13 Acts 17:24 and 30-31.
14 Matt Perman, “How Can Jesus Be God and Man, ” Desiring God, October 5, 2006, accessed 9-20-19, https://www.desiringGod.org/articles/how-can-Jesus-be-God-and-man
15 Athanasius, Discourse Against the Arians, Chapter 28, (c. 370). Christian Classics Ethereal Library, accessed 9-16-19, https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.xxi.ii.iv.vi.html
16 Michael Goulder, Incarnation and Myth: the Debate Continued, ( Eerdman’s, 1967), p. 143
17 Knowledge of Jesus Christ, Christian Answers Encyclopedia, accessed 9-16-19, https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/knowledge-of-Jesus-christ
18 Kerry D. McRoberts, “The Holy Trinity,” Systematic Theology (Revised Edition, Stanley M. Horton, ed.), p. 155.
19 For a summary of the Nestorian Controversy see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorianism
20 Knowledge of Jesus Christ, Catholic Online, accessed 9-16-19, https://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=6328
21 Father Jim Martin, “Jesus Didn’t Know Everything,” Catholic TV, accessed 9-16-19, http://www.catholictv.org/shows/ten-things-know-about-Jesus/Jesus-didnt-know-everything
22 Luke 4:1
23 Revelation 2:11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22.
24 Deuteronomy 18:15; Acts 3:22, 7:37; Matthew 21:11
25 Acts 2:3-4; 4:8; 4:31.
26 2 Kings 5:25-27; Daniel 2:28-30; Amos 3:7
27 John 6:64; 13:1, 11; 18:4.
28 “The Old Testament in the New,” accessed 9-18-19, https://authenticinfluence.wordpress.com/small-group-studies/the-old-testament-in-the-new/
29 Isaiah 53; Zechariah 11:12-13; Matthew 27:6-10; John 6:69-71; Numbers 21:9; John 3:14-15; 12:32; 19:28; Acts 3:18.
30 See also Ecclesiastes 9:3.
31 Matthew 16:3 (the word “know”).
32 Matthew 21:45 (the word “understood).
33 See also John 21:17
34 John 17:1, 3
35 “Was Jesus Omniscient and Omnipotent on Earth?” AmRedeemed, May 23, 2017, accessed 9-18-19, https://amredeemed.com/bible-study/Jesus-omniscient-omnipotent-earth/
36 Council of Rome, Tome of Pope Damacus, Canon 12 (382 AD) (Denzinger, 29th ed., No.31.) As quoted in Jesus’ Omniscience, Part II, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkUYKDnIkns, accessed 9-16-19
37 William Whitson, as quoted in “Theos, Search for the One True God,” One God, One Lord, accessed 9-20-19, http://www.oneGodonelord.com/theos-9
This is a non-WLC article. Source: https://oneGodworship.com/is-Jesus-omniscient/
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