Thread by @meakoopa

thinking about a question from the podcast - "did Milton innovate the idea of Jesus being depicted as wrong about something?" - and i can think of at least one example in the actual Gospels: when the woman at the well rebukes him and he's "damn ur right lol"

are there others?

I suppose the wedding at Cana is a parallel moment to this - his mother talks him into doing the "right" thing that is, for him, not the most dignified thing

(wedding at Cana is great bc Jesus wants to be the classy Son of God and Mary is just like "DONT FUCK UP YOUR COUSIN'S WEDDING DO U THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN US???"

the plight of every 'gifted' child forced to perform at family functions and a 'mommmmmmmm' heard across the ages)

the more i think about this the more examples i can think of in the gospels where Jesus is not exactly WRONG but definitely fully just goes "idk talk me into it"

always thought of Catholic intercessionary tradition as tacky - God's gonna do what God's gonna do - but it really does have a rich textual tradition of Christ as capricious, changeable, and delightable.

Chesterton's God as a child who just wants to see something neat happen.

Perhaps the ultimate example of this is Jesus describing a judge being pestered to do justice by a woman with no shame - even if his conscience doesn't bother him, eventually she will.

I guess the point is that if you wanted to write a Gospel where Jesus is always right and magisterial, you wouldn't have the Gospels as we have them.

The neat thing about the Incarnation seems to be that having one subjectivity has opened him to the possibility of misperceiving.

This week, we return to Earth - to find the Son, now in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, totally amnesiac about his heavenly life and at his most vulnerable as the Devil approaches. patreon.com/posts/31854643