Jesus Is the Smartest Person Who Has Ever Lived

Dallas Willard:

At the literally mundane level Jesus knew how to transform the molecular structure of water to make it wine, that knowledge also allowed him to take a few pieces of bread and some little fish and feed thousands of people.

He could create matter from the energy that he knew how to access from “the heavens right,” where he was. . . .

He knew how to transform the tissues of the human body from sickness to health and from death of life.

He knew how to suspend gravity, interrupt weather patterns, eliminate unfruitful trees without saw or ax. He only needed a word. Surely he must be amused at what Nobel prizes are awarded for today.

Saying Jesus is Lord can mean little in practice for anyone who has to hesitate in saying Jesus is smart.

He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who has ever lived.

He is now supervising the entire course of human history (Rev. 1:5) while simultaneously preparing the rest of the universe for our future role in it (John 14:2).

He always has the best information on everything and certainly on the things that matter most in the human life.

— Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 94-95.

See also Willard’s article “Jesus the Logician.”