free will
Did Jesus have a free will? a sin nature? please use scripture to support your answers.
posted by Todd Paris @ 4:16 PM
Ecclesiastes 4:12 "if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart." This blog is a forum for 3 of the Paris brothers to discuss stuff. Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion--in the abundance of counselors there is victory -Proverbs 11:14
Did Jesus have a free will? a sin nature? please use scripture to support your answers.
posted by Todd Paris @ 4:16 PM
2 Comments:
Try this one Todd!
Mark 14:36 -- Jesus submits to the will of the Father. Isn't that an exercise of free will?
If you understand the Disciple's Prayer as a real prayer, not just a form to be repeated, then Jesus was showing the boys how to submit their free will. However, some have suggested that the prayer lesson (Mt. 6:9 = boys listen carefully as I pray again) comes as a result of Jesus praying this way often. Thus the disciples asked, "Teach us to pray (like you do)". I realize, that this explanation is more of a stretch between the lines.
John 5:30 suggests that he did have a will, free in the sense of humanity/choice, etc., yet his will was so submitted, he counted it dead to sin and alive to God's will. It was if he had broken off all of the other antennas and locked onto one wavelength. He had a great filtered will. Free? yes. And yet bound to the will of the Father.
The sin nature issue is another post. But seems like a fairly normal ordination/doctrinal statement sort of question -- he was virgin born to protect from sin nature transferrance, etc.
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