What did Christ know?

[Guest ambrose]

Hello people

If Christ knew that he would be glorified after death, and that he would be resurrected, doesn't that lessen the sacrifice of his life somewhat? Like when a doctor tells you that an injection will hurt, but you get a cookie afterwards?

If he made a "naked" sacrifice on the cross, where he did not know what would happen afterwards, would that make his sacrifice larger?

Help me out! I don't know!

[Pio Nono]

JMJ
11/14 - Thirty-third Sunday

ambrose,

There are usually two lines of defense here which the Church utilizes.

1.) Christ knew who He was and what He was to do at all times of His existence, "from eternity to eternity." He knew that He was to be crucified and was to rise from the dead for the salvation of mankind. But...

2.) He voluntarily clouded His own vision of what was to become of Him in this life, following instead the constant revelation of what He was to do (at any given moment) from the Father. As a result, He knew what was to happen in His divinity, but in His humanity ("he became one of us in all things except sin") He did not allow Himself to know what was to become of Him.

And with your example, I think Christ's case is a little more extreme. It'd be like my saying, "I'm going to horrifyingly torture you to death, and your pain will last for about 24 solid hours, but afterwards you'll be fine." I don't know too many people who would take me up on that. Hope this helps.

Yours,
Pio Nono