Tarsonis Survivors wrote:This is actually what we're discussing right now in my systematics class, particularily how Christ is legitimately surprised on multiple occasions. It stands to reason an all knowing God would not be able to be surprised. It seems that Christ has limited knowledge.
Or He is just acting surprised for specific reasons. For example, when a sick woman who wanted to be healed touched His clothes and He asked "who touched Me?", He already knew who touched Him, but wanted the person to step out of the crowd of her own volition, rather than Him pointing her out.
Tarsonis Survivors wrote:Pasong Tirad wrote:How would Christ's knowledge be limited? Is it like a Christ-the-Man/Christ-the-Divine dichotomy kind of thing?
God knows all things for all time, at all times. Christ, though possessing great swaths of knowledge, pertinent to his ministry also has limits to his knowledge. He experiences the human life and part of that humanity is not being omniscient. And there are times, such as with the centurion where he is supposed at the events taking place.
This is starting to sound way too close to the Nestorian heresy. Or possibly Arianism, depending on where you're going with it.
Christ, being God, was and is omniscient. He could act surprised, for effect, but wasn't actually surprised by anything. To suggest that Christ has limits to His knowledge either implies that Christ isn't God (Arianism) or that there's some sort of separation between Christ-the-Man and Christ-the-Divine so that they are like two entities with one knowing something that the other doesn't (Nestorianism).
And Nestorianism is very, very bad. Remember the Chalcedonian Definition: Christ the God-Man, one person in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.