Reduplicated preaching is the means to understanding the relationship between the natures of Jesus Christ. When Scripture attributes human qualities to Jesus they must be based on his human nature. Likewise, when Scripture attributes divine qualities to Jesus they must be based on his divine nature.
With this insight, we might be able to solve the problem of the predicates of the Person. The predicate property of the Person is one with respect to nature (i.e. ignorance with humanity and omniscience with divinity — hunger and fatigue with humanity, need with divinity).
But now there is a problem. Once we apply this to Jesus, such predicates as omniscience and ignorance, and sinlessness and humanity seem to be incompatible. A problem with limitations is posed. Is this irremediable? I don’t think so.
Additional Qualifier – We can posit that the divine aspects of Jesus were largely subliminal during his humiliation (his ministry before death). What reasons are there to support this qualifier? In fact, this qualifies Jesus’ humanity even further.
Psychoanalysis has confirmed the existence of a subconscious. This is evident in schizophrenia and in hypnosis. With schizophrenia there is one conscious that is awake and one (or more) that is not, however, the subliminal subconscious can still become a reality. There is one that controls and governs the conscious. With hypnosis, one can be hypnotized and instructed not to look at, for example, a table. If you were instructed to walk to the door, and the table was between you and the door, you would walk around the table, even though you cannot literally see it, you still have the knowledge that it exists in your subconscious.
During the incarnation, the Logos allowed only certain aspects of consciousness into the person of Christ that were compatible with normal human experience. This gives much more light to the genuineness of his temptation, the anointing and filling of the Spirit, the Spirit drawing him into the wilderness, his prayer to the Father (these are not just samples). Jesus, at 3 years old, would not have been contemplating Newton’s infinitesimal calculus or quantum mechanics; he was a genuine Jewish boy growing in wisdom and stature.
So in essence it was a self-limitation of humanity with simultaneous practical divinity in one Person. This is different from Kenotic Christology in that He does not give up certain attributes and no longer possess them. In this view, He still retains all the human and divine aspects of voluntary limitation.
Original Blog: http://bit.ly/2nir4jz
Translated by Jorge Gil Calderon
