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Was Jesus of two minds ... literally? (Part 1 and a half)
December 21st, 200902:44 PM ETIn my last post I laid down the raw materials for an account of how Jesus could be simultaneously omniscient (qua his divinity) and finite in knowledge (qua his humanity). I did so by outlining the dual consciousness of split brain patients. In those fascinating cases people who suffered from severe seizures were given a corpus callosotomy, an oper... -
Was Jesus of two minds ... literally? (Part 1)
December 16th, 200907:53 AM ETWe continue our reflection on the paradoxical notion of God becoming incarnate in Jesus Christ (with special attention to the property of omniscience and finite human knowledge). Our last foray focused on the unsatisfying "reduplicative formula" which really does little more than label the paradox at issue. According to this "model" (if it can be c... -
Was God the Son merely close friends with Jesus?
December 14th, 200909:58 AM ETThus far we have been considering the logical puzzle of how an omniscient God could possibly become a human being. The basic problem we face is one of incompossibility of properties: i.e. there are many properties that Christians believe God exemplifies of necessity which are incompatible with attributes human beings exemplify. (Note I haven't yet ... -
Did Baby Jesus know more physics than Einstein?
December 10th, 200903:59 PM ETChristians have classically defined God as omniscient. That is, they have affirmed that God has all knowledge; more specifically, God knows all true propositions and believes no false propositions. According to that classic understanding of God, which theologians often refer to as "classical theism", God is not only omniscient but essentially so. T...
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