When was His “Age of Accountability”?

[cedarhart]

When was His “Age of Accountability”?Born a Babe, He was fed, bathed, and changed as any other infant with one big difference. He was the Son of God; Emmanuel. Surely He went through the same stages of development as any other human child but at what pace? He learned to walk and talk; at the same stage of normal development? Who knows? When did He learn to read or it would seem that He would not have to learn as He would just know. It would seem that one would be able to suppose that He was mentally mature and just waited for the body to catch up by growing. At the age of 12, He was teaching in a Synagogue. It is speculated that He spent his teens and perhaps some of His early adulthood with His Uncle Joseph of Arimathea visiting the Tin Mines up and down the coast of Europe.Not until He was 30 years old, did He make His abilities known when urged by His mother. When did He realize what and who He was? He was perfect, so even as a child, he would act and react to situations appropriately and exemplary. This would bring to mind the Apocrypha. There are negative representations of Christ’s behavior that just don’t add up. So, perhaps this is one reason that these books were not included in the Bible.If Christ realized that He was “different” as He was surely informed, He would want to use His abilities. How did He choose not to heal or enhance other’s accomplishments? His parents knew that He was able to perform miracles as they knew who He was. He obviously did not use His Holy abilities as His first miracle was at the wedding when He turned water to wine, which is documented in Scripture. Even then, He told Mary that it was not His time yet. If He had healed anyone during His childhood, word would have spread immediately and He would have been unveiled and swarmed by crowds constantly and unendingly.When did He know? In my opinion, He always knew and had a sense of awareness, always. He only had to wait to grow into His role so that others would respect and accept Him. That required Him to be an adult man. What is humorous to me is the fact that His mother had to initiate His “coming into being” by actually telling Him what to do! And He balked! Think of the discipline that he had to have had as a young child that would take us a lifetime to mature into and still never come close to His.

 

[jtartar]

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When was His “Age of Accountability”?Born a Babe, He was fed, bathed, and changed as any other infant with one big difference. He was the Son of God; Emmanuel. Surely He went through the same stages of development as any other human child but at what pace? He learned to walk and talk; at the same stage of normal development? Who knows? When did He learn to read or it would seem that He would not have to learn as He would just know. It would seem that one would be able to suppose that He was mentally mature and just waited for the body to catch up by growing. At the age of 12, He was teaching in a Synagogue. It is speculated that He spent his teens and perhaps some of His early adulthood with His Uncle Joseph of Arimathea visiting the Tin Mines up and down the coast of Europe.Not until He was 30 years old, did He make His abilities known when urged by His mother. When did He realize what and who He was? He was perfect, so even as a child, he would act and react to situations appropriately and exemplary. This would bring to mind the Apocrypha. There are negative representations of Christ’s behavior that just don’t add up. So, perhaps this is one reason that these books were not included in the Bible.If Christ realized that He was “different” as He was surely informed, He would want to use His abilities. How did He choose not to heal or enhance other’s accomplishments? His parents knew that He was able to perform miracles as they knew who He was. He obviously did not use His Holy abilities as His first miracle was at the wedding when He turned water to wine, which is documented in Scripture. Even then, He told Mary that it was not His time yet. If He had healed anyone during His childhood, word would have spread immediately and He would have been unveiled and swarmed by crowds constantly and unendingly.When did He know? In my opinion, He always knew and had a sense of awareness, always. He only had to wait to grow into His role so that others would respect and accept Him. That required Him to be an adult man. What is humorous to me is the fact that His mother had to initiate His “coming into being” by actually telling Him what to do! And He balked! Think of the discipline that he had to have had as a young child that would take us a lifetime to mature into and still never come close to His.
cedarhart, There is no way anyone can be sure when Jesus first became aware of exactly who he was and remembered his life in heaven, BUT it was either when Jesus was baptized, Matt 3:16,17, or when he was resurrected as a spirit again, 1Pet 3:18,19, 1Cor 15:50. Since Jesus was a perfect man, his mind was very much greater than ours. By the time Jesus was a young child he probably knew the scriptures that he had read, The Hebrew Scriptures, by heart. The Jews used memory of scriptures in their teaching methods. It is said that several of the early copyests knew the Hebrew Scriptures by heart, even though the did not understand them as Jesus did. Since Jesus was the Masterworker of God's, Jesus would know every language on earth, so it was an easy thing for him to memorize texts. This knowledge was most likely given to him at Baptism, where the scripture says that the heaven was OPENED UP, Matt 3:16.:study:

 

[waquinas]

the awareness of Jesus, when did He know who He is, has been debated for thousands of years. Agree we cannot know for certain, but at least from the drinking miracle I think we can say it had to be before His baptism. He knew it was not His time yet, His mother knew He could do it if He wished.I would think a full realization had to come much earlier. He is fully God and fully Man (assuming one believes that), so there could not have been a point in his life that He was not God. Maybe not aware. As a man I would think in his development there would have been a time He was spared the full reality. There is also something not quite right in thought of changing God's diaper, dispelled somewhat perhaps in the assurance that He was also a real Man and we all start out that way.