*** If anyone asked Jesus a technical question about biology or chemistry, would he have known the correct answer?***
The notion that you have put forth in your post is deadly.
If it is true, then you have opened the door to throwing out the entire New Testament as supseptable to error.
Jesus may or may not have posessed the knowlege fo the intracies of modern technology - but this is a FAR CRY from asserting that he may have been mistaken in his knowlege of God and His will and words!
Jesus said,
"I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. They understood not that he spake to them of the Father."
and later...
" I speak that which I have seen with my Father: "
and more significantly...
"Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me,"
Jesus claimed that the things he spoke were not from himself, but they were things the Father had shown him. Even if you believe that Jesus was limited on the earth in his knowlege, to believe he was WRONG about what he said is to question the very heart of Christianity - the revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ.
Well, actually, the entire NT is susceptible to error. I am not a Biblical literalist or inerrantist. I have explained earlier why I am confident in my faith based on the Bible, even though I believe that there are errors in it. Let me be as plain as possible: Christian faith is not the same as belief in Biblical inerrancy.
Put technically: Some Evangelicals, sometimes known as "fundamentalists", teach a doctrine referred to as "verbal plenary inspiration". This means every word of the Bible is inspired by God. I emphatically believe that this teaching is