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NASB | Luke 22:42 saying, "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 22:42 saying, "Father, if You are willing, remove this cup [of divine wrath] from Me; yet not My will, but [always] Yours be done." |
Subject: Three will, two or just one? |
Bible Note: Dear Lemont - On fully understanding the concept of the triunity of God, even theologians quickly come to the end of their tether! So I, a simple layman, do not pretend to understand it, but the Bible presents clear and unimpeachable evidence that there is one God in three Persons, and holding as I do to the plenary inspiration of Scripture, I am a trinitarian. ..... Now, back to your question which relates to the Lukan passage in which Jesus the Son is quoted as praying to God the Father, "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine be done" (Luke 22:42). Lemont, I don't see this passage as implying any conflict, any clash of wills as it were, between Jesus and the Father. On the contrary, it constitutes a vivid revelation of Jesus in His humanity surrendering His will to the will of the Father as He always did in all things. Be sure to see also John 4:34; 6:38; 8:29. ...... The doctrine of the triunity of God, among all doctrines that the Bible teaches, has always been for me the most difficult; and I suppose it is for everyone, since it entails the notion of finite man struggling to attain a perfect understanding of Infinite God, and this simply cannot be done. Thus the road toward a clearer and deeper understanding of the doctrine of the trinity is narrow and slippery, and it is easy to fall into the ditch of error along the way. Let me illustrate the ease with which one may fall into error by citing three basic historical heresies of the doctrine of God that have been around for centuries and are still being taught in various forms and in various disguises today. ...... The first on my list of errant teachings is Modalism. Modalism maintains that there is one God who manifests Himself successively as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit but who is not contemporaneously all three. ..... The second is Subordinationsism. Subordinationism views the Son and the Holy Spirit as essentially and eternally subordinate to the Father. ..... The third false concept of God on my list is Tritheism. Tritheism teaches that there are three gods rather than one God who is in three Persons. ....... The fundamental concept of the Shema is eternally true: "Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD" (Deuteronomy 6:4). ...... In the five plus years of this Forum's existence, we have witnessed variations of all three of these heretical teachings. Those who promoted them, I'm happy to say, are no longer registrants of Study Bible Forum! --Hank |