Our assistant pastor was preaching last night on Jesus'last night before the crucifixion. He said a couple of things that really got my attention and I'm having a problem deciphering them. The first thing he said was that it was while Jesus was praying in the garden that He "made the decision" to go through with the crucifixion. He had asked His Father if the cup could be taken from Him but realized that was not to happen, so He decided to go ahead with it and from that point we don't see Jesus resisting. It seems to me that Jesus never had to make a decision. His death had been foretold for centuries and He had even told His own disciples that it was going to happen. Oh, that pastor also said that he doesn't believe that Jesus knew exactly what was going to happen to Him, which brings up the second part of my post. Our pastors teach that Jesus laid aside the "independent use" of some of His divine attributes while He was on earth, so that He didn't know all the future or read men's minds all the time, only when the Father allowed Him to. I know that Jesus did read peoples' minds at times, he knew the Samaritan woman's past, etc. and He said that He didn't know when His own second coming would be, that only the Father knows that. I can't seem to find any verses that directly speak to Jesus setting aside His divine attributes, unless it is what Phil. 2 means. If He did do that, would He still be FULLY God and FULLY man?
Julie