Monday, February 16, 2009

Omnitianc of Christ in Mortality

The other day I was at Home Evening (an institution set up by Church to promote family unity, usually called Family Home Evening but, since were collage students and not technically a "family", accept in the sense that were all children of God, we call it Home Evening in stead) and someone game a lesson on the intelligence of Christ. He started out by asking the question, "How smart was Christ?" At first i didn't know how to respond. "Smart" wasn't a word that I often associated with the Savior, I often thought of him as wise, the child who astonished the priests at the temple . But as we discussed the topic the fact that Christ was not only wise in laws and eternal truths, but also very knowledgeable of laws and customs of his people, in fact, on many occasions (if not all occasions) he knew more about the laws of the people than did the Pharasies and scribes. So we know that Christ was knowledgeable of the customs and legal principles of His time.
These things being said, we also know that Christ was not all knowing during his mortal ministry. In the Doctrine and Covenants, a book of latter day scripture, we learn that "He [Christ] received not of the fullness at first, but received grace for grace," or in other words, Christ had to learn bit by bit just as we do.

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