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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." |
Bible Question:
Since there has been so much talk on the nature and efficacy of God's will these past several days, I wanted to pose a question to the Forum in addressing what I consider to be the single most difficult account of God's will in Scripture. When Jesus is praying in Gethsemane, he asks His Father that the "cup" of the Cross be lifted from Him if God the Father is willing. He follows it up by saying "Yet not my will, but Yours be done." We know that Jesus and the Father share the same divine essence, and that Jesus, although also sharing our human essence, was not inclined to sin in any way. However, we see an apparent opposition of wills between two Persons of the Trinity. Granted, Jesus submits His will to the Father's, but the fact that He to a certain degree is unwilling to go to the Cross can be rather unsettling. As He is sweating drops of blood in the garden and dreading the process by which He will secure atonement for God's people, what are we to make of this statement? --Joe! |
Bible Answer: I guess I have never seen this verse as controversial I just see it as the humanity of Christ. We as humans have a great will to survive. Jesus didn’t want to die. I feel even greater, Jesus knew when He took on the sin of the world God would have to turn his back on Him and He would be separated from God. This is why Jesus cried out on the cross, “My God, MY God why have you forsaken me?” I Think sometimes we forget at the cross we broke and eternal fellowship and to Me this is why Jesus did not want to face the cross but new He had to. |