In the opening post, I specifically mentioned three systems of the human body, our cardiovascular system, our digestive system—and our nervous system that includes our brain! Jesus had a human brain—just like ours! However, it is often supposed by Christians, including many who post to Christian Chat, that Jesus knew everything—including whether the Genesis flood actually occurred, and whether Moses wrote the Pentateuch.
In Mark 6:3 we read, “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?” And they took offense at Him.
I am a conservative, evangelical Christian, and therefore I believe that Jesus was actually a carpenter, having been raised in a first century Jewish family with four brothers and an unspecified number of sisters. I do not believe that He attended a university to study world history, cosmology, chemistry, physics, or the arts—and therefore I do not believe that He knew anything more about these subjects than the typical young layman in his community. I do believe, however, that He believed the Jewish traditions that were part of the culture in which He was raised by Mary and Joseph. Therefore, He would have believed that the Genesis flood actually occurred and that Moses wrote the Pentateuch—unless His heavenly Father had told Him otherwise.
Therefore, I ask—is it likely that His heavenly Father had told Him otherwise? Surely if He had, and Jesus had shared with the people around these things, He would have been severely ostracized by his community, and by every other community in which He had shared these things, for being a subversive heretic!
The inspired four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) accurately tell us what Jesus taught, but they do not tell us whether Jesus believed correctly about the Genesis flood and the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch. We simply believe that Jesus believed and taught correctly because God is omniscient—and Jesus is God—sometimes forgetting that He was also a human being with a very finite human brain!