Can a being have two different wills or does two different wills mean two different beings?
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We see in Romans 7 that Paul talks about internal conflict and a competition of wills.
The metacognitive model of ambivalence has good value when approaching this: https://academic.oup.com/ct/article/25/1/23/4061179
If that model is correct, it easily resolves questions about the Trinity and why God the Father knows more than God the Son while still being one.
The metacognitive model of ambivalence has good value when approaching this: https://academic.oup.com/ct/article/25/1/23/4061179
If that model is correct, it easily resolves questions about the Trinity and why God the Father knows more than God the Son while still being one.
The problem is with the definition of free. We are not robots. Someone may consider stealing and decide not to. Soldiers have given their lives to save comrades. Many do this knowing the consequences. It's a choice.
Satan would have us believe that we are preprogrammed puppets. We just do what we are hard wired to do. That's false. At the same time, we know what we should do, but often don't do it. So I reckon we have conditional free will. Which sounds like a paradox to me.
Satan would have us believe that we are preprogrammed puppets. We just do what we are hard wired to do. That's false. At the same time, we know what we should do, but often don't do it. So I reckon we have conditional free will. Which sounds like a paradox to me.
Without the Whole Picture of Scripture from the Artist known as the Holy Spirit, we leave ourselves half filled.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God
something to be grasped,
but emptied Himself,
taking the form of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
He humbled Himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross.
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
Who, existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God
something to be grasped,
but emptied Himself,
taking the form of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
He humbled Himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross.
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