If Jesus Is God, Why Didn't He Know This?

Does the strongest argument against Jesus being God come from Jesus Himself?

In Mark 13 and Matthew 24, Jesus says that no one knows the day or hour—not the angels, nor the Son, but only the Father.

So here's the obvious question:

If Jesus is God, and God knows everything, how could Jesus genuinely say, "I don't know"?

In this episode of The Caffeinated Christian, we work through one of the most difficult objections to the Christian doctrine of the incarnation. 

Did Jesus surrender His omniscience when He became human?

Was Jesus simply ignorant according to His human nature?

Does the incarnation mean Jesus had two minds?

What does Paul actually mean when he says Jesus "emptied Himself" in Philippians 2?

And can Jesus genuinely say that He doesn't know something while the eternal Son remains omniscient?

We're going to take the objection seriously rather than giving a quick Christian cliché. We'll look at Mark 13:32, Philippians 2, the historic Christian understanding of Christ's two natures, and the philosophical question of whether omniscience is something God could surrender and still remain God.

This isn't about finding an easy answer.

It's about asking whether the Christian doctrine of the incarnation is actually coherent.

The bigger question isn't simply, "Did Jesus know everything?" It's “Who is Jesus?”

CHAPTERS:

00:00:02 - Welcome to the Caffeinated Christian Podcast

00:02:12 - Coffee Machine Disaster and Pumpkin Spice Season

00:03:58 - Jesus Not Knowing the End Times

00:10:49 - Jesus' Divine and Human Nature Explained

00:13:18 - Jesus' Omniscience and Human Nature Problem

00:19:55 - Jesus: One Person, Two Natures Explained

00:22:39 - Jesus's Omniscience as a Necessary Divine Attribute

00:29:15 - Understanding Jesus' Emptying in Philippians 2

00:31:46 - Morphe in Greek Literature: Outward Appearance Not Nature

00:35:18 - Jesus Didn't Surrender Divine Attributes

00:36:51 - Jesus: Fully Divine and Fully Human

00:39:24 - Jesus' Knowledge and Human Consciousness Levels

00:45:26 - Jesus' Levels of Awareness and Divine Attributes

00:48:37 - Jesus' Genuine Dependence on the Father

00:51:07 - Jesus' Human Nature and Divine Limitations

Jesus & Omniscience Teaching Guide

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.