So ... perhaps Christ is changing His mine (in His human nature).
I’m approaching the topic obliquely ... can God change His Mind (in His Divine Nature)? I think not ...
So ... perhaps Christ is changing His mind (in His human nature).
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That’s a good take on it. It doesn’t require process theology. I threw that out as a possibility, a changeable plan of God, or a plan with alternate paths, because it is a mysterious statement about it not being his time by Christ. Since he was talking about “his time” I viewed it as the eternal plan of salvation. I can more comfortably put this within the mystery of the human and God nature within Christ and how they interact, the same place in my disordered mind as I keep “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” rather than in a nascent process theology.
It still is mysterious though, in that his human nature would have a plan that was preferred to the plan of God. Sort of like his prayer: “Abba, Father, everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will but what you will.”