Did Jesus Christ Know Science?

1. Did Jesus Christ Know Science? To this question I cannot help but to respond with: “Is grass green? Is the sky blue? Is water wet?” The notion entertained by some people, even by some Christians, that Jesus of Nazareth was some kind of a semi-illiterate first century ignoramus and deluded (albeit sincere) ‘religious fanatic’ on a passionate quest to reform His local synagogue, is one of the worst errors they can ever make about this humble carpenter rabbi from Nazareth. Notes:

1.1 Jesus Christ was the Projects Engineer responsible for the creation of the Universe. The Bible says: 

   ”God, who at many times and in many ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the pro-phets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds, who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power …” [Hebrews1:1-3a].

1.2 As Creator of the Universe, Jesus Christ was obviously acquainted with the workings of such scientific phenomena as Universal Gravitation, the Strong & Weak Nuclear Forces, the Electromagnetic Spectrum, the Periodic Table of the Elements, Acoustics, Quantum Mechanics, Astrophysics, Celestial Mechanics & Universal Constants etc. So unfathomably profound was the mysterious world which He represented (and had hailed from) that the Apostle Paul could at best exclaim:

   “And I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I do not know; God knows), that he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not allowed for a man to utter." [2Corinthians12:3-4].

2. Why Did Jesus Not Teach More ‘Natural Science’? My submission is that Jesus’ problem was His notoriously unsophisticated, first-century ‘audience’; He simply could not discuss even today’s 21st century science with His public, let alone the mysterious science of the HEAVENLY realm from whence He had hailed. At the time He lamented:

   “If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how shall you believe if I tell you heavenly things?" [John3:12].

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