Originally published at The Catholic Thing
One way to tell whether one person knows another well, is whether he is familiar with what that other person likes and does not like. Aristotle said it was a mark of friendship to like and dislike the same things. Maybe those who do, can spend more time together, with less conflict. At very least, to know what someone likes is a test of friendship. Country music or classical? Fast cars or punting on a lazy river? Ethnic food or mac n’ cheese?
Therefore, if we are friends with Jesus, we should have an idea of what He likes and dislikes. I mean, in His human nature – those likes and dislikes which have the character of tastes, or visceral reactions. Jesus loved mercy and hated sin, of course. Did He react viscerally to sin, in His human nature? Presumably so. And yet perhaps, even here, He did so more viscerally to some sins than to others.
He had to have had likes and dislikes, like all of us, if He assumed a genuine human nature.
When we think of such things, we often begin with food. Let’s start there. Do we know anything about the food He liked? Newman
