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Holland
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I had a child ask this question. Did he forget things; like his lunch; or how about misplacing things; like his tools?
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Magicsilence
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Can you think of the most perfect person you know.
Do they forget things? Rarely?
Jesus was God, as perfect as perfect can be.
So, nope, he wouldnt have forgotten things. He would have been as perfect as was possible for a human being.
In Christ.
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Todd_Easton
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I think human forgetfulness is a consequence of Original Sin which Jesus would not have been subject to.
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Orionthehunter
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I think he may have forgotten some things. Forgetting is not a sin and he was sinless. But he was also human and that is part of our existence. Does that make him less, perfect? No. Just a perfectly normal human. Is it important if he did or not? Not in my opinion.
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Holland
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I said something similar to what you said. I don’t think forgetfulness would be the consequence of Original Sin.
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Al_Masetti
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it depends.
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Daniel_Marsh
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He had to forget many things or it would drive him nuts, think about potty training, do you really want to remember that when you are 30?
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JimG
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Since forgetting is quite often biological, and Jesus, as man, was human, it wouldn’t surprise me if Jesus forgot some things. He was human like us in all things but sin, and forgetting is not a sin.
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DeFide
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From the Catechism:
**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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