Garry,

You had mentioned:

For anyone to NOW say, "No one knows the day and hour"...

I think that what Jesus said may very well still be true.

The early Christians, dealt with numerous different teachings, so the Council of Chalcedon declared plainly what the scriptures taught on the nature of Jesus.

They declared that the scriptures teach that Jesus, in his incarnation, is fully God and fully man, the God-man, not half man and half God.

Some modern extremes of "kenosis" teaching have moved away from Chalcedon's scriptural conclusions,

and have begun to make it sound like Jesus "gave up" some of his attributes for the incarnation.

God cannot be "not God", nor half God, nor 2% God, he is immutable.

Also, Chalcedon dealt with the scriptures that disproved the Nestorian teachings that had sprung up.

The Nestorian view presented Jesus a kind of schizophrenic, where he did some things as man, and other things as God.

Chalcedon concluded that the scriptures teach that Jesus in his incarnation experienced everything as the God-man.

So if the Son of God declared that he did not know the day or the hour,

he was not saying that his humanity didn't know, but that his Deity did, that would have been schizophrenic.

Also he was not saying that he had given up a certain % of his Deity, that he couldn't know it until he got charged back up to 100% after his ascension.

People say that it would be impossible for an omniscient God to not know something,

however, regarding the Christian's sins that he has paid for, he remembers them no more.

Jesus said that the Father knows something and that he did not; he was not denying his Deity,

but it was the Lord, himself, describing some unique quality of the Godhead.

For some to then to go on and ask, "how could the Father know something that the Son did not?",

forgets that the Son did something that the Father did not, the Son died for our sins.

Is it any more a mystery that it was uniquely the incarnation of the Son, and not rather, or also, the incarnation of the Holy Ghost or the Father?

If we can believe that the Son, not the Father, experienced death on the cross, then why is it so hard to believe the Son,

when he said that somehow the Father knows something that he does not.

Why would that be impossible, but his not knowing our sins any more would not be?