Did Jesus always know that He was God?

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Did Jesus always knew that He was God?
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Since He was fully God & God is all knowing, I’m wondering how he could not - know??? It is sort of mind boggling to picture Jesus as an infant… knowing all about the universe because He created it… but I’m thinking He must’ve?

In the Bible when he stayed behind at the temple he told Mary that He was in His Father’s house… so He obviously knew at 12.

P.S. Welcome to the forums! This is an excellent question & I’m curious to read the other responses. If you want something in depth - you may want to post this & other questions like it in the apologetics forum. 🙂
 
Jesus, as God, of course knew His divine nature.

Jesus, as man, thought like a man, using his human faculties.
 
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From the Catechism:

Christ’s soul and his human knowledge

**471 **Apollinarius of Laodicaea asserted that in Christ the divine Word had replaced the soul or spirit. Against this error the Church confessed that the eternal Son also assumed a rational, human soul.100

**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 favor with God and man”,101 and would even have to inquire for himself about what one in the human condition can learn only from experience.102 This corresponded to the reality of his voluntary emptying of himself, taking “the form of a slave”.103

**473 **But at the same time, this truly human knowledge of God’s Son expressed the divine life of his person.104 "The human nature of God’s Son, not by itself but by its union with the Word, knew and showed forth in itself everything that pertains to God."105 Such is first of all the case with the intimate and immediate knowledge that the Son of God made man has of his Father.106 The Son in his human knowledge also showed the divine penetration he had into the secret thoughts of human hearts.107

**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.108 What he admitted to not knowing in this area, he elsewhere declared himself not sent to reveal.109

vatican.va/archive/catechism/p122a3p1.htm#III
 
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