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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<DIV>Dianne<BR><BR><B><I>Stephen Korsman
<skorsman@theotokos.co.za></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<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 <A
href="http://www.baggas.com/blog/archive/2006/01/christ_the_lord.html">http://www.baggas.com/blog/archive/2006/01/christ_the_lord.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<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>--<BR>Stephen Korsman<BR><A
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">skorsman@theotokos.co.za</A><BR><A
href="http://www.theotokos.co.za/">www.theotokos.co.za</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><EM><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#0000bf>Like a deer that longs
for running waters so my soul longs for you, O
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000bf><EM><FONT face="comic sans ms">Ps
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