…according to the Catholic soul, Jesus had no knowledge (and by ‘knowledge’ I mean justified true belief).
Christ has infinite knowledge in his divine mind not only from the first moment of the Incarnation but before it. The human knowledge he acquired through the Incarnation, however, was finine and grew with time. Regarding this the Catechism says:
472 This human soul that the Son of God assumed is endowed with a true human knowledge. As such, this knowledge could not in itself be unlimited: it was exercised in the historical conditions of his existence in space and time. This is why the Son of God could, when he became man, ‘increase in wisdom and in stature, and in favour with God and man’,[Lk 2:52] and would even have to inquire for himself about what one in the human condition can learn only from experience.[cf. Mk 6 38; 8 27; Jn 11:34; etc.] This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of himself, taking ‘the form of a slave’.[Phil 2:7]
474 By its union to the divine wisdom in the person of the Word incarnate, Christ enjoyed in his human knowledge the fullness of understanding of the eternal plans he had come to reveal.[cf. Mk 8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34; 14:18-20, 26-30] What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal.[cf. Mk 13:32, Acts 1:7]
None of the passages listed have anything to do with eating from the tree of knowledge.
So you mean Jesus eating from the tree of knowledge?
I don’t think that’s neccessary since he is already all-knowing because he is God.
By the way what do you mean by Catholic?
So you’re saying that from conception, Jesus was all-knowing?
Damn, why couldn’t I have been birthed like that?Ummm, Wait, 9 months in total darkness in a damp place, no sensory input, Naahhhhh, i do not think i would like to have been all knowing from the point of conception. that would make one insane.
Yup.
From Catholic Answers:
What you’re saying is that the baby Jesus would have understood the whole of Thus Spoke Zarathustra completely in-depth (for starters)- that all of those concepts were already fully developed in his mind, which is ridiculous.
Well for starters Jesus is Fully Man + Fully God.
The finite Jewish Jesus of course will not understand, he is bounded by most physical rules. Since Thus Spoke Zarathustra haven’t been publised then, the human side of Jesus, bounded by experience and all human boundaries, of course cannot understand, expound nor speak about it. But the divine part of Jesus can and knows no time nor space since he is outside of it.
This is a highly theological issue, Platonic and Aristotellian arguments abound in it, and by the way this is supposed to be mundane babble, so I think I won’t expound on it anymore.
The OP was talking about his mind. I think you call this his ‘human side’.
Yeah, I always see that happening maybe once, Xunzian putting your post in Mundane Babble. Is there any bad blood or something between the two of you, if you don’t mind me asking.
If Jesus is all-knowing, then he’s a man of knowledge, not a man of faith.
He only likes long-winded OP’s.
That’s just bad, this is a very complex topic you raised, I think you ought to start a thread over there, but with a longer OP,