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Friday, November 27, 2009

On the Human Knowledge of Christ, Part 7

SUPERNATURAL KNOWLEDGE?
Mark 11:7; Mark 14:131-16; Luke 19:30-34. Jesus told his followers a colt and a room would be available for them. All they had to do was ask. While this may imply supernatural foreknowledge, Jesus may simply have made arrangements ahead of time.
Luke 2:46-52. Jesus was clearly a precocious child but supernatural knowledge, while implied, is not necessary to the passage. What is important that Jesus claimed Sonship to God.
John 6:64-70; Mark 14:18; Matthew 26:21. These passages flatly imply a supernatural precognition unless one accepts the assertions of the gnostic Gospel of Judas which declares that Jesus arranged the whole thing.
Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5: 24-34. In recording this event, Mark declares that Jesus knew that "power had gone forth from him." I think that the passages may mean that Jesus knew who touched him but the point is that He did not simply let the healing occur. In all of the healing miracles Jesus expected and sometimes demanded an act of faith.
Matthew 17:24ff. Supernatural foreknowledge is clearly implied here. "Natural" explanations all fall short.
Mark 2:1-12; Matthew 9:4; Luke 17:22. "He knew their hearts." Of course he did. It was obvious that they considered him to be a blasphemer and he intentionally provoked it by openly claiming to be not only one with God, but to be God.
Matthew 16:21; Matthew 17:22-23; Mark 9:31-32; Luke 9:22. Any rational person could have foreseen Jesus' arrest and probable execution. His resurrection is another matter.

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