Subject: Cup Passed? |
Bible Note: Rowdy, I would like to make just two comments. "It's difficult to come up with all the reasons but I think one of them was the fact going to the cross for Jesus was going to be the first time in His existence of His being separated from His Father. Remember although this plan had been in God's mind before the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, Christ had never had the sins of the world heaped onto Him which forced God to turn his back to His own Son." Since you know that "this plan had been in God's mind before the fall of man" if would seem an unfortunate choice of words to say that the Father "was forced" to turn his back on the Son. God is not "forced" to to anything. His will is accomplished and His will cannnot be forced or acted upon by any other will or power. I assume you do not believe any different from this must merely made an unfortunate choice of words. "Jesus was going to be the first time in His existence of His being separated from His Father" Jesus was at no time separated from his Father in his divinity. The Father and He are one in being with each other and the Holy Spirit.(John 14:7-11) In experiencing death Jesus was experiening death as a man: the separation of his body and his human soul. That is enough to cause plenty of anguish to Jesus, a true man. But it was his confidence in the Father that carried him through his ordeal in faith. "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit, you will redeem me Lord, faithful God!" Psalm 31:6; Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59 In his Divine Person, the Son, the Word still possesed His body and soul though they were separated from one another for a time in order to accomplish the divine plan of salavtion. For the Son, Jesus Christ is one Divine Person with two natures and only his human nature suffered the separation of its two integral pasrts, body and soul, but the one Divine Person was never separated into two, for there was never but one Divine Person incarnated and taking on a human nature comprised of body and soul. Emmaus |