Divine Child Acts Like a Real Baby

    One major lesson I've taken away from Religion classes I've taken is that each depiction of Jesus uses his figure in a different way, centering on specific aspects of his character in order to present him in a certain light: teacher, martyr, prophet, etc. So, when reading the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, one of the questions I asked myself was 'how are they portraying their Jesus?' And overall, the answer is not great. It's confusing to me, actually- the entire gospel is Jesus repeatedly enacting miracles, which speaks to a culture trying to assert the divinity of Jesus as a figure. Yet all of these miracles are spurred by extremely childish reactions to other children, which to me is asserting his human nature. 

    The image of a being with divine powers acting like a baby is highly contradictory to me; I can understand a society's writings depicting Jesus as a child performing miracles to perform a purpose, and I can understand a society's writings depicting Jesus as a child being short-tempered to perform a purpose, but the two together seem to be images of Jesus from two different cultural understandings of Jesus' figure. I struggle to understand how they understood Jesus as divinity when all of his miracles were so malicious, able to act as God yet behaving like a child. To me, even a child with divine powers would be expected to behave with the wisdom of God; that Jesus lacks this in IGT leads me to believe they saw Jesus as somewhat separate from God, otherwise they would have depicted the Christ Child behaving in a more gracious way.