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Originally Posted by armourbearer 
The scepticism I am referring to is not to a specific position which purports to give an account of knowledge, but to the possibility of knowledge itself. I would like to know if the criticism itself does not remove the possibility of the perfect knowledge of Jesus. Would Jesus' perfect knowledge have involved him in the regress problems which are attributed to internalism?
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Externaism doesn't deny the possibility of knowledge; indeed, we try to salvage it. Externalism is specifically a response to the skeptic's "how do you know that you know?". We cut that one off right at the head.
If Jesus wasn't an internalist, then he's not subject to the critique.
I don't see how the criticism removes the "perfect knowledge of Jesus" (though I admit to not knowing what that phrase means, exactly). If you have a reason or an argument as to why it would, then I'm all ears. But you said you were asking a sincere question, and I'm saying that I don't see how the critique of internalism affects Jesus.
Now, it's getting late here, and I have surgery in the morning, so I'll have to leave it at that. I don't know how else to respond as (a) I think I have and (b) your questioning isn't all that clear and (c) I'm unsure you're familiar with the aspects of this discussion in contemporary epistemology and (d) you didn't read the article so I can't ask specifics and you can't point directly to where in the article you find a relevant analogy to Jesus. But I hope my attempt to answer you was somewhat helpful? Scratched where you itched a bit?