If Jesus doesn't know when the end of the world is, how is he the same thing as God, who does?

Question

In Matthew 24: 36 it says Jesus doesn't know when the end of the world is, only his father. How can that be if he's the same thing as God?

Savage Nation, I'm trying logic but this still contradicts the trinity doctrine.

Randy, does that mean Jesus in heaven does know the end of the world? I looked up similar questions and didn't like the answers. I was hoping to see some newer, better answers.

Randy, I appreciate your extra edits. Now does that mean the trinity still knows everything at the same time they choose to forget? It's interesting to me.

Answer 1

good question.

but jc is dead, so we'll never know!!

cheers!

phyllis!!!!

Answer 2

I asked this same question on here three months ago.
No one who believed in the Trinity could give me an explanation. If Jesus was God then he would know all the things that God does. He talks of his Father as another person with another person's knowledge. You will not get a satisfactory explanation from a Trinitarian about this scripture.

The only conclusion a person can come to if they look at this scripture with no preconceived biased view is that Jesus the Son is a different separate person than his Father.

Answer 3

The logical answer to your question is that He is not God based on the verse that you mention and on many others.

The following analogy may be helpful in clarifying the relation of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit without the need of a dogma.

A perfectly pure and polished mirror will reflect the suns heat and light when held in front of it. It will even show the image of the sun inside it.
This perfectly pure and polished mirror was Jesus.
The sun represents symbolically God.
The mirror reflecting all the Glory, the Light and Heat of the sun for mankind, represents Christ.

The mirror can say that the sun is in me. It would be perfectly correct. A perfectly pure mirror reflects the image of the sun inside it.
The mirror can say that the sun is greater than me. It would be also correct. The mirror is merely reflecting the light that it receives from the sun.
The mirror can say that who has seen me has seen the sun.
The mirror can also say that the only way to look at the sun is looking at me. Which is also correct since we can not look directly at the sun without being blinded. But we can look at a mirror that has the image of the sun inside.

So this analogy seems to hold true for all the descriptions that Jesus gives us about Himself and His relation to God.
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Answer 4

This is another of the contradictions in the bible you can find one on every page. The new translations are getting some of them corrected so they can keep their flock. why are they so many impossible thing in the bible like the circle we live on and the sun being pull across the sky. I sometimes feel that the Bible is man's creation of God to try and control the people. Jesus also said the end would come before all in this room has passed and there is not one in that room alive today. These written passage really stir up me to think that maybe religion is only mind control.

Answer 5

Dear razz,

Matthew 24:36 states, "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."

Then we read in Mark 13:32, "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father."

Mark 13:32 seems to suggest that Jesus does not "know" the date of the end of the world. But, as you said, God knows everything and that is true. So how do we answer this supposed contradiction?

The word "know" can be understood 2 ways: to know as in experienced or intellectually. In Matthew 1:25 we read, "And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS." This verse tells us that Mary was a virgin when Jesus was conceived. After the birth of Christ, Mary and Joseph had intimacy and they had children.

In Matthew 24:36, Jesus knows the day and hour because He is God. The Bible tells us in 1 Timothy 3:16, "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."

So "knoweth" regers to having experienced or gone through.

Answer 6

We know that Jesus Christ had been in heaven with his Father at the time of earth’s creation. (John 1:1-3; Col. 1:13-17) He knew the exact time of the creation of both Adam and Eve. (Gen. 1:26, 27) He knew precisely when 6,000 years of human history would be completed. He knew exactly when God’s seventh creative day, his great “rest” day began and when it would end. (Gen. 2:1-3) Yet, with all his perfect knowledge of chronology, when he was on earth he did not know the day and hour of his execution of judgment on this world, prior to when his thousand-year reign begins.

And why doesn't Jesus know the "day and hour"? Because he isn't God.

Those who think Jesus is God feel that he chose to limit his knowledge and power as a human. If that were the case, how could Jesus STILL be fully God? Bye, bye, trinity.

Answer 7

You forget that within the Trinity, Jesus has a two-fold role.
Jesus, the man; and Jesus as God the Son.

Strictly my own viewpoint, but I believe that Jesus the man is responsible for the quote you cite. If that's NOT the case, then it's just another mystery of God that we can ask Him about when we get to heaven.

Answer 8

Because God did not want humanity to know when the end of the world would be.

Jesus was fully divine, but He was also fully human. So perhaps this was God the Father's way of ensuring that this information would not be revealed to humanity in general.

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Answer 9

Hoorah, somebody gets it!

Good for you! It is not logical that he could be both his Father and his Father's son. When I see you, I see your father...that is a figurative saying...or when you see me, you see my mom because I look like my mom.

The ignorant will continue to remain ignorant until they choose not to be blinded. Great Point and glad you brought it out! Amen!

Answer 10

I'm not sure about Jesus, but I, for one, am aware that 2011 will be the end of the world. After all, that is the year in which I will be released into the world to wreak havoc and insanity--more than that which I've already accomplished here on Y!A. Oh, the fun I'll subject myself too.

(I am still confused. Why is it that you made me your contact?)

Answer 11

mistery? is a lie, Jesus was a son of God and a god, a son of american is american but that doesn´t mean he is his father his father is higher in power and knowledge (John 14:28)