Posted by bibleman [dproper] on November 01, 1999 at 17:00:51 {2gTL9dbN6kqWvNK4R.ToP1C36qMA2w}:
Bibleman,
I have a question for you. How are we to view the WTS information that Jesus had no prior
memory to his life with Jehovah in heaven until Jesus became baptized as described at:
*** Rbi8 Matthew 3:16 ***
16 After being baptized Jesus immediately came up from the water; and, look! the heavens were
opened up, and he saw descending like a dove God’s spirit coming upon him.
If this is the case, that Jesus’ memory was restored, is this kind of what it is like
for the annointed who are resurrected now ? Their memories restored ?
*** w92 2/15 11 The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived ***
14 Then, nearly two thousand years ago, God transferred his Son’s life to the womb of a woman.
He thereby came to be a human son of God, born in the normal manner through a woman.
(Galatians 4:4) While Jesus was developing in the womb of his mother, Mary, and later when he
was growing up as a boy, he was dependent upon those whom God had selected to be his
earthly parents. Eventually Jesus reached manhood, and evidently then he was granted memory
of his previous association with God in heaven. This occurred ‘when the heavens were opened
up to him’ at his baptism.—Matthew 3:16; John 8:23; 17:5.
*** gt 12 12 Jesus' Baptism ***
But more than that happens as Jesus is baptized. ‘The heavens are opened up’ to him. What
does this mean? Evidently it means that while he is being baptized, the memory of his prehuman
life in heaven returns to him. Thus, Jesus now fully recalls his life as a spirit son of Jehovah God,
including all the things that God spoke to him in heaven during his prehuman existence.