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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: Not my will, but Yours be done... |
Bible Note: Indy: Thanks for your input, and congratulations on the new addition to your family! I rejoice with you. You wrote: "The essence of obedience is doing what we don't want to do." In a certain sense, I can see your point. Faithful obedience, in my view, is indeed wanting to yield to God's will, even at great personal cost. It is the joyful acknowledgement that God knows best and works all things together for my good. That is the truth of the matter; whether my own thoughts consistently correspond to thet turth is another issue entirely... You also wrote: 'Given the Bible's emphasis on Jesus' obedience, perhaps we can conclude that Jesus (fully human and fully God) and the Father (fully God) had "differences of opinion" arising from Jesus' humanity that would never escalate to the level of dispute or outright rebellion.' When the early church was wrestling with these issues and eventually came up with the Chalcedonian Definition in 451 (http://www.reformed.org/documents/chalcedon.html), the way they saw the resolution to this problem is what while the human nature of Christ and His divine nature were in perfect union, they remained distinct. In other words, there is no mixture of the two natures. Some theologians refer to this as a hypostatic union between the two natures in one Person. There is communication of information, however, from one nature to the other. Jesus displayed His knowledge of some things that only God could know, and asserted His ignorance of other things. We are treading on holy ground when we talk about this, but Jesus' human nature was not omniscient, while His divine nature always has been so. His true humanity lends a very unique variable to the equation, one that God is His sovereignty has not condescended to explain fully to us. --Joe! |