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1 | Three will, two or just one? | Luke 22:42 | Lemont | 176260 | ||
Does each of the 3 persons in the Godhead have his own will or personality? | ||||||
2 | Three will, two or just one? | Luke 22:42 | Hank | 176264 | ||
Lemont - Here's a brief statement concerning the Triunity of God (Trinity) that possibly may help: .... The doctrine of the Triunity is the distinctive and essential Christian teaching that there is one God in three Persons. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. There is a distinction between the Persons so that the Father is not the Son, the Father is not the Spirit, and the Son is not the Spirit. Each is a Person. The Holy Spirit is not to be envisioned as a mere force or influence; thus, the personal pronoun He (or Him) is used in reference to the Holy Spirit, but never It. (Adapted from the Glossary of "The Believer's Study Bible" published by Thomas Nelson.) --Hank | ||||||
3 | Three will, two or just one? | Luke 22:42 | Lemont | 176340 | ||
Hank: Since this is essential, I just want to make sure I understand. Jesus appears in this account to want "the cup" to be removed (reasons not important to my immediate question). But he wants the Father's will to be done, so he is willing to go along with whatever happens. This would imply two distinct wills. Am I correct? Lemont |
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4 | Three will, two or just one? | Luke 22:42 | BradK | 176341 | ||
Hi Lemont, Allow me to offer some perspective. It would stand to reason as Jesus and His Father are One -in essence- (John 10:30), that there cannot be two separate wills. God cannot be divided nor have 2 wills. Christ is always in agreement with his Father. A.T. Robertson comments on your verse this way: "Be done [ginestho]). Present middle imperative, keep on being done, the Father’s will." Notice that this is what is recorded in Heb. 10:7 in quoting Psalm 4:6-8, "THEN I SAID, 'BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.'" Spurgeon, in his work, The Treasury of David makes these comments about Ps. 40:8, "I delight to do thy will, O my God. Our blessed Lord alone could completely do the will of God. The law is too broad for such poor creatures as we are to hope to fulfil it to the uttermost: but Jesus not only did the Father's will, but found a delight therein; from old eternity he had desired the work set before him; in his human life he was straitened till he reached the baptism of agony in which he magnified the law, and even in Gethsemane itself he chose the Father's will, and set aside his own." In his Explanatory Notes is the following: "Thy will. The covenant between the Father and the Son, as elsewhere, so it is most clearly expressed Hebrews 10:7, from Psalm 40:7-8, "Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God." And what will? Psalm 40:10, "The will by which we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." The will of God was, that Jesus should be offered; and to this end, that we might be sanctified and saved. It is called "The offering of the body of Jesus Christ, "in answer to what was said before, "A body has thou prepared me, "or a human nature, by a synecdoche. "My will, "says God the Father, "is that thou have a body, and that thy body be offered up; and all to this end, that the children, the elect, might be sanctified." Says the Son to this, "Lo, I come to do thy will; "— "I accept of the condition, and give up myself to the performance of thy will." [John Owen.] BradK |
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