atpollard
Well-Known Member
We (human beings) have two wills … as Paul says, that we wish, and that we do. Arthur Schopenhauer put the puzzle of free will and moral responsibility in these terms:
“Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions, and thinks that at every moment he can commence another manner of life ... But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns...” [The Wisdom of Life]
In his On the Freedom of the Will, Schopenhauer stated, "You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.”
For Christ, the two wills, Human and Divine had no reason to be in conflict or out of sync. He had no sin to influence Him contrary to the perfect Will of God.
So Jesus had TWO wills in perfect agreement.
[imho]
“Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions, and thinks that at every moment he can commence another manner of life ... But a posteriori, through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but subjected to necessity, that in spite of all his resolutions and reflections he does not change his conduct, and that from the beginning of his life to the end of it, he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns...” [The Wisdom of Life]
In his On the Freedom of the Will, Schopenhauer stated, "You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.”
For Christ, the two wills, Human and Divine had no reason to be in conflict or out of sync. He had no sin to influence Him contrary to the perfect Will of God.
So Jesus had TWO wills in perfect agreement.
[imho]