Did Jesus' hypostatic union limit Christ's consciousness?

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Here is an interesting Bible verse that shows that Jesus was omnipresent while on earth:

And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. -- (John 3:13, KJV)

Here we learn that Jesus was in heaven while talking to Nicodemus! We also learn in John 1 that Jesus saw Philip under the fig tree when this was physically impossible. This shows that Jesus was omnipresent and omniscient while on earth.

Jesus did not "empty Himself" of His divine power. Rather, the KJV states that He "made himself of no reputation" (Philippians 2:7). He concealed much of His power and glory while on earth, but that doesn't mean He didn't have it. While on earth, He said,

No man taketh it [Jesus' life] from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. -- (John 10:18)

And Paul wrote in Colossians 2:9:

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

So Christ never gave up His power--just His reputation. He was 100% God and 100% man.

And so to directly answer your question--Jesus was conscious, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, while in the womb.

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I think you're asking questions about "the Son" that can't be answered without "dividing the question", as they say in parliamentary procedure. That is, you simply have to ask the question about Jesus' divine nature and His human nature separately. I'm not saying that we need to separate the two natures of Jesus - that's heretical. I'm saying that they are distinct but not separate, without mixture or confusion, as the Definition of Chalcedon teaches us:

This one and the same Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son [of God] must be confessed to be in two natures, unconfusedly, immutably, indivisibly, inseparably [united], and that without the distinction of natures being taken away by such union, but rather the peculiar property of each nature being preserved and being united in one Person and subsistence, not separated or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son and only-begotten, God the Word, our Lord Jesus Christ,...

The divine nature of Jesus is omniscient, and the hypostatic union surely does not change the fact that the divine nature still knows everything. The human nature of Jesus, while on earth, slept at times, and that sleep was normal human sleep.

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