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Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

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The question

I need your help in explaining this verse and how the Lord Jesus does not know the time. "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only" (Matthew 24:36).

The answer

Our Lord Jesus Christ is one of the Holy Trinity in the Godhead. He is omnipotent and omniscient in every sense. Nonetheless, His role, will, knowledge, and obedience, as the Son, was subjected and deferred to the Father.

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