<DIV>Stephen,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I agree with you totally - guess I was too lazy to type all that in my previous e-mail. However, the blogger wrote: "At the same time we see the progress of Jesus' own self awareness <U>as he begins to question who he really is</U>, given his unusual abilities and the secrecy surrounding the events of his birth and move to Egypt,...." </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The "age appropriateness" of His knowledge, I believe, is solid thinking but I just can't believe there was any questioning going on in His mind. I am very interested in reading the book though. Thanks for sending the information.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dianne<BR><BR><B><I>Stephen Korsman <skorsman@theotokos.co.za></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR> <DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I won't try and define how Jesus could know he was God, because it's too complicated for me. As a baby, I can't imagine that he could know anything in the sense we know things as adults ... although, just as he was aware that he was conscious and existing, I doubt he lay there comprehending that consciousness / existence the way we do as adults. As a baby, he must have been aware that he was God, but not in the "adult" sense of contemplating the creation of universes, etc. As his awareness that he was human became more defined as he grew older from infancy, it may have been that way with his understanding of his divinity. He knew he was God, but as his mind matured, he could probably, at age 12, express (to himself) his existence as God in a different way to what he did as a newborn baby. As God, he could comprehend the physics of the universe in a way
today's scientists can't ... but I doubt that he did so as a baby. He "knew all things that God knows in himself by the knowledge of vision, but not all that God knows by the knowledge of simple intelligence." (Thomas Aquinas, Summa III, 10,3.) [I copied that quote from <A href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHRIST/KNWLDG.HTM">http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHRIST/KNWLDG.HTM</A>, which is a nice overview.]</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think the book sounds like a really good one ... and if we don't try to comprehend the mind of God, it would probably be very inspirational. I doubt she meant it as a doctrinal thesis, although she probably did mean it, in some way, as a witness to her return to Catholicism.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=rcdianne@yahoo.com href="mailto:rcdianne@yahoo.com">Dianne Dawson</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=skorsman@theotokos.co.za href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">Stephen Korsman</A> ; <A title=apologetics@gathman.org href="mailto:apologetics@gathman.org">Apologetics Group</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:43 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Apologetics] Anne Rice: Christ the Lord - Out of Egypt</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>I saw this book in WalMart the other day but didn't pick it up to read what it is about. I think I'll probably revisit it. The blog comments are interesting however I am
bothered by the tendancy for people to disconnect the Humanity and Divinity of Jesus. The Hypostatic Union (<A href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07610b.htm">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07610b.htm</A>) is not a joining or comingling of the natures but a true uniting into one subsistence and one person. Therefore there would be no separation of the Divine knowledge and the Human knowledge. Jesus, at whatever age, knew exactly Who and What He was.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dianne<BR><BR><B><I>Stephen Korsman <skorsman@theotokos.co.za></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's quite a good but brief review of Anne Rice's novel, "Christ the Lord - Out of Egypt," at
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