Jesus I.Q and intelligence

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If Jesus took an I.Q. test while on earth, what would he score? Would he by definition be off the chart genius in his human nature? How could it be otherwise?
 
I have often wondered this as well.

He’s Divine but also Human, but one Person. Did He have human intelligence or merely divine Wisdom? I have often wondered
 
You wouldn’t be able to measure His intelligence. It’s that great.
 
I don’t know the nature of an IQ test exactly. Doubt he would take one. There are different ones, I think.

Jesus knew all things. Everything. But in his humility, he’s not going to be giving a lecture on quantum mechanics, relativity, or unified field theory at age 12 or ever. 🙂
 
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I think Jesus would be capable of being off the charts, but whether he would show his full genius is another matter. Jesus many times chose to lower himself than where he could have been as the Son of God. He made himself an example for us to follow, so maybe Jesus would lower his intelligence.
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Jesus knew all things. Everything.
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False. He didn’t know when he would die.
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I believe Jesus was capable of knowing everything, but he chose to limit his knowledge in some areas. The example we have is when Jesus admitted he did not know the hour or the day of his second coming, only the Father knows (“But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”, Mk 13:32). I believe Jesus was capable of knowing everything, but deliberately chose to withhold that from himself. This would mean it was possible he didn’t know exactly when or how he would die, just that he would die at some point. We have know way to know though, just guesses.
 
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Jesus had full knowledge of everything which could possibly be known by a created intellect, obviously including the answers to every test, so no test could validly be administered to him.

As to the spirit of the question (what his general intelligence, i.e. discursive reasoning ability, was), it would have been greater than any other human being, but not technically infinite, since discursive reasoning would still be subject to the inherent limits of the human brain even if the premises and conclusions were all known intuitively beforehand.
 
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