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To: eastsider
Your point is possible. I have tried to research this but have been unsuccessful. However, Anselm's statement about the "fixed" choice is consistent with Anselm claim that God the Father gave Christ His human will and Christ merely followed this will.

Anselm clearly states that God drew and move Christ's human will since God the Father gave Christ that will.

20 posted on 05/16/2007 5:25:45 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD
There's no division of wills among the Godhead. Christ's obedience and sacrifice were ordained from before the foundation of the world.

"For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities." -- Isaiah 53:2-11

"For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak." -- John 12:49

21 posted on 05/16/2007 6:08:03 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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