Waching daily May 30 2018

Go now to Jake in Temple, Texas watching on YouTube.

Jake, thanks for watching on YouTube, your question for Jim Blackburn. Hi yeah

can you guys hear me okay? Yes we can. All right. So I was an ex-Mormon--

I'm an ex-Mormon, now I'm Catholic, I came into this church this past Easter, and I

was curious how the Catholic Church interprets the verse John

14:28 and Jesus's statement about the Father being greater than him. Okay. Do

you have that passage in front of you that you could read that? Yeah, I

do you want me to read it out for you? Sure. Okay, so it says, "You heard me say, 'I

am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad

that I am going to the Father, for the father is greater than I." Okay. Okay, so

your question is...it assumes that you've mentioned you're from a Mormon perspective, or Mormon

background for an ex-Mormon, that does this somehow then indicate that Jesus is

not equal to the Father? He's not God? Is that what you're...? I was, yeah,

exactly, I was taught that this proves that Jesus is subordinate, and now, er

subordinate to the Father, and now as a Catholic I'm wondering how the Catholic

Church interprets that verse. Okay and I'm not sure that the Catholic Church

has a, you know, a specific interpretation of this verse. The--in fact I could check

the Catechism and in the back of the Catechism there's a reference where you

can look up any Bible verse and see if it's referenced in the Catechism. I don't

think this one is, not that I can recall, but that said the--how can we understand

this? And there are a couple of different approaches to this. Number one, we need to

keep in mind that Jesus is God incarnate. He has a human soul and he has a divine

soul. Paul tells us that in his humanity, you know, Jesus, he really

hid his divinity in a certain way. He did this because his friends couldn't,

wouldn't be able to comprehend his greatness, really, if he if he didn't do

this, and he he emptied himself, as Paul says. Well, so we could look at this as

though Jesus is coming from his human perspective. He's not a human person

here but he has a human--he's a human incarnation of the second

person of the Trinity. And through his humanity, his divinity, and the

Father's divinity, is greater than his humanity. Now that's one way that

some Bible commentators will will look at this and point out how Jesus can make

such a bold statement. Another perspective, if we were to say, "Well,

Jesus is coming from the perspective of his divinity," is that in Catholic

theology and in Christian theology going way back, the very first several

centuries of the Church, really the divinity of Christ and the divinity

of the Father the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and how this all relates, was

a very big topic, and it took centuries for these things to be ironed out and--[music playing] I

hear music as we're going to a break. Let me it pick it up from there after the break.

We were speaking, Jim Blackburn, when we left, to Jake in Temple, Texas about what does

the Catholic Church understand by Jesus' statement "the Father is greater than I?"

Yes, and in particular we're talking about John 14 verse 28. And I did look in

the Catechism of the Catholic Church and I could not find a reference for that.

Before the break, I approached that from the perspective that many commentators

do, in that Christ may be speaking in regard--with regard to his human

nature, not his divine nature. And of course the divine nature of the Father

is greater than than the human nature of Christ, and that's one way of looking at

this. Another way the theologians will sometimes look at these types of

statements of Christ would be that we could look at the Trinity itself, and in

the Trinity there is a, we could say, even though all three persons are equal

there's a certain...almost a hierarchy within the Trinity of the Father being

the first person of the Trinity, the son being the second person, and the Holy

Spirit being the third person of the Trinity. These are--they're even listed by

first, second, and third persons. And in fact we often will, when we look at this,

look at it from this perspective: We see that that's really how we

distinguish between the three persons of the Trinity, is their relationship with

each other. The son proceeds from--er, is begotten

of, the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, and

these processions, these--the way that they relate to each other, we see

the Father is in a very very--sense from our perspective at least first, the

Son second, and the Holy Spirit, even though they exist eternally as such,

they're, say, there's a certain ordering to the persons of the Trinity in this

way. So sometimes theologians, we'll look at a

statement of Jesus like this, and relate it to--on that divine level rather

than the difference between the human nature and the divine nature--human

nature of Christ and the divine nature of the Father. So I hope that helps and

I would say, if you want to try to research this further, go to a good

Catholic commentary and and look up this verse in a good Catholic commentary, and

I'm sure you'll you'll find a lot more there.

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I'm a strawberry breeder, and what we do is develop new varieties for North Carolina growers

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About half the growers are these small growers with, you know, one to three acres or maybe

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They're the first thing to come out in the spring, you know, coming out of winter.

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Mm-hmm (positive), that's good.