How Did “Human” Jesus Know Who He Was?
Episode 4 of the Healing Forward with Sandra podcast, hosted by [email protected], titled "How Did “Human” Jesus Know Who He Was?" was published on April 15, 2022 and runs 32 minutes.
April 15, 2022 ·32m · Healing Forward with Sandra
Summary
I have a question. This question has been tumbling around in my brain for 40 years. How did “human” Jesus know who he was? I asked people. I asked my mom. I asked the church leaders. They said, “God told him” or “he just knew” or “maybe he will tell you that when you get to paradise”. As I grew and became an adult—the answers expanded to include “well, he was God in the flesh-how could he not know” and other similar answers that were all based on how people understood and expressed their interpretation of the “Jesus Story”. And I struggled to accept these answers because I was being asked to “be like Jesus”. How can I ever “be like Jesus” when I don’t have the tools he had? I felt like I was being set up for failure. I also could not see how “human” Jesus had any free will if he was just being guided and handheld and went through the motions of being human just to have that experience. I survived some terrible times in my late teens and early 20s, after being excommunicated and shunned from one high control group and being recruited into a different high control group by people I knew and trusted. My relationship with God became nonexistent. There was no active participation on my part. The “Golden Rule” became my way to live and that was all I could do as I recovered and tried to undo the programming from the high control groups and recover from the abusive situations I found myself in because the cult programming made my situations seem “normal”. And the question still tumbled around in my head: How did “human” Jesus know who he was? I truly enjoyed sharing and talking about this with my friend and partner, Monica Artrip, who is the tech person behind the scenes for Healing Forward Support. You can read more about how I came to answer this question along with other resources and findings in our Healing Forward Support Blog. Thank you so much for joining today! If you ever feel like you need someone to talk to through your healing process, we have a “you are not alone” support group every Wednesday at 10 am PT/1 PM ET. Please go to www.healingforwardsupport.com/workshop to sign up to receive the private link for the support group each week, we would be so glad to have you there. In order to keep my services and support to others completely FREE and available to people when they need it, we need your help!! If you have found value in what has been shared today, please donate at www.healingforwardsupport.com/becomeapatron or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HealingForward If you would like closed captioning for this or any of our episodes please visit our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuN_5_fu5XdTNt9UBQaj1GQ We use chartable.com to help us reach the full potential of our audience. To opt-out being tracked by chartable, please go to https://www.requesteasy.com/5dfe-0804
Episode Description
I have a question.
This question has been tumbling around in my brain for 40 years.
How did “human” Jesus know who he was?
I asked people. I asked my mom.
I asked the church leaders.
They said, “God told him” or “he just knew” or “maybe he will tell you that when you get to paradise”.
As I grew and became an adult—the answers expanded to include “well, he was God in the flesh-how could he not know” and other similar answers that were all based on how people understood and expressed their interpretation of the “Jesus Story”.
And I struggled to accept these answers because I was being asked to “be like Jesus”. How can I ever “be like Jesus” when I don’t have the tools he had? I felt like I was being set up for failure. I also could not see how “human” Jesus had any free will if he was just being guided and handheld and went through the motions of being human just to have that experience.
I survived some terrible times in my late teens and early 20s, after being excommunicated and shunned from one high control group and being recruited into a different high control group by people I knew and trusted.
My relationship with God became nonexistent. There was no active participation on my part. The “Golden Rule” became my way to live and that was all I could do as I recovered and tried to undo the programming from the high control groups and recover from the abusive situations I found myself in because the cult programming made my situations seem “normal”.
And the question still tumbled around in my head: How did “human” Jesus know who he was?
I truly enjoyed sharing and talking about this with my friend and partner, Monica Artrip, who is the tech person behind the scenes for Healing Forward Support.
You can read more about how I came to answer this question along with other resources and findings in our Healing Forward Support Blog.
Thank you so much for joining today!
If you ever feel like you need someone to talk to through your healing process, we have a “you are not alone” support group every Wednesday at 10 am PT/1 PM ET.
Please go to www.healingforwardsupport.com/workshop to sign up to receive the private link for the support group each week, we would be so glad to have you there.
In order to keep my services and support to others completely FREE and available to people when they need it, we need your help!!
If you have found value in what has been shared today, please donate at www.healingforwardsupport.com/becomeapatron or
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HealingForward
If you would like closed captioning for this or any of our episodes please visit our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuN_5_fu5XdTNt9UBQaj1GQ
We use chartable.com to help us reach the full potential of our audience. To opt-out being tracked by chartable, please go to https://www.requesteasy.com/5dfe-0804
Similar Episodes
Mar 24, 2026 ·21m
Mar 17, 2026 ·28m
Mar 10, 2026 ·45m
Mar 6, 2026 ·24m