The divine nature of Jesus

[Holland]

During the Sunday Homily the priest said that Jesus was tempted by Satan because of his human form and because he wasn’t fully aware of his divine nature yet. It came to him gradually. Is that true? I just always assumed Jesus knew who he was right from the get go.

 

[GoldenArrow]

Gosh … I think Jesus was aware of His Divinity from the moment of His Conception. The latest time he could know was at the age of reason — 6 or 7 years. This is my best guess. Anyone know the Dogmas in this area?

God Bless!

 

[metal1633]

During the Sunday Homily the priest said that Jesus was tempted by Satan because of his human form and because he wasn’t fully aware of his divine nature yet. It came to him gradually. Is that true? I just always assumed Jesus knew who he was right from the get go.

He was fully aware of His divine nature while being tempted by Satan. “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God” He said.

 

[Vincent]

But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all the human intellect can hope to grasp.

For hardly was He conceived in the womb of the Mother of God, when He began to enjoy the beatific vision, and in that vision all the members of His Mystical Body were continually and unceasingly present to Him, and He embraced them with His redeeming love.

O marvelous condescension of divine love for us! O inestimable dispensation of boundless charity.

In the crib, on the Cross, in the unending glory of the Father, Christ has all the members of the Church present before Him and united to Him in a much clearer and more loving manner than that of a mother who clasps her child to her breast, or than that with which a man knows and loves himself.

Encyclical Mystici Corporis 75
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Pope Pius XII taught that Jesus had the Beatific Vision from the moment of his conception. How can Jesus enjoy the Beatific Vision, and yet be ignorant of his divinity?

 

[japhy]

He was in the temple at the age of 12, asking questions and giving answers; he was “about [his] father’s business” (Luke 2:49). He knew before the baptism in the Jordan who he was. He knew at the moment of his conception in Mary’s womb.

 

[dylanschrader]

What that priest said was false.

Christ has two natures, therefore two intellects and two wills. His divine will and knowledge are in no way lessened by the Incarnation. At the Incarnation, the Second Person took on a created human nature (having a body, a soul, an intellect, and a will). However, he is one and the same Person.

Christ’s human knowledge did not have the ignorance that we have as a result of original sin. He also had what is called infused knowledge.

The question of how Jesus can then apparently “grow in wisdom and knowledge” as Luke says is commonly resolved by the theory that in his human nature he had perfect knowledge of general principles but could still learn about particular situations.

He knew he was God without a doubt. You only have to read the Gospel of John to see that.

 

[Daniel_Marsh]

I think it was John 2, where Jesus omnipresence is made known.

 

[Bishopite]

During the Sunday Homily the priest said that Jesus was tempted by Satan because of his human form and because he wasn’t fully aware of his divine nature yet. It came to him gradually. Is that true? I just always assumed Jesus knew who he was right from the get go.

Jesus was fully aware of His divinity when He encounterd Satan. Because Jesus was divine, His nature didn’t allow Him to sin; sort of like an outershell, so to speak that Satan couldn’t penatrate; I’ve heard Fr. Corapi say this before. He was tempted to show us an example of overcoming Satan and to show that He had the power of sin and death.