If they have no will between them but the Father's then the Father is the only one who matters.
And regardless, since each of them is 100% of God under the Trinity doctrine, why would any version of God submit to another version of God who can't make decisions any different to the other two...
Then they only have one will, and aren't three distinct entities.
Here's the author of Mark, about to write the purported life story of his hero. He knows that hero was born of a virgin through an astounding divine miracle, BUT HE FORGETS TO MENTION IT?
And instead he DOESN'T make his hero...
How in your view did Esther get to be part of the Tanakh?
What do you think of the view that the writers of the NT were time and again careful to model their stories on various parts of the Tanakh because if the reader thought that was so, it gave the text extra prestige?
You may have come across Edward FitzGerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, which among much more, contains the verse:
The Revelations of Devout and Learn’d
Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn’d,
Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep
They told their comrades, and to Sleep return’d.
I suspect it's because religion is stories, in this respect not unlike Harry Potter or Superman, and skeptical enquiry isn't. For instance, if I thought miracles were real ─ miracles are the same thing as magic, the alteration of reality independently of the rules of reality ─ I'd establish an...
Looking back, I can see that religion (we were Piscos) in our household was a matter of manners rather than belief. When I was a kid, now and then we went to Sunday service (which is how I'm able to sing the hymns (if any) at Christian funerals and weddings). I also went to Sunday school, and...
No. Each person has a will, leaving them free to agree / disagree / don't know to any family proposition, which also includes levels of authority by which some command and some are commanded.
So it appears to me that EITHER God is a single entity and has one will (but apparently three faces...
Why would it not be clear to an onlooker which is which?
Because it's certainly not clear to me.
For example, the different kinds of Christianity are so many their number can't be stated with precision, and in large part they choose to be different because they disagree with the others.
In...
In the present context my argument is about what the bible actually says. It gives three irreconcilable versions of Jesus. It's not possible for more than one of them to be right, but it's possible, as a matter of history, for all three to be wrong. However, history as such isn't the topic on...
But you haven't addressed the question. The Trinity doctrine says God is one substance and three persons, and that results (as I've mentioned) in nonsense.
Since (it appears) you disagree that the Trinity Doctrine is nonsense, please explain to me whether (a) each of the Father, Jesus and the...
A miscellaneous thing, as in eg "some danged thing".
So God doesn't have one will, you say? Then how many wills does God have?
The question goes to the heart of the issue, I think.
Not so. As I keep mentioning, there are five Jesuses in the NT with three main models, namely Mark's adopted...
You mean God can divide [him]self into two distinct entities? In that case how can there be only one God? There could be a mouse plague of the durners!
So if they're three persons, each has a distinct will, therefore there are three gods.
OR if they have only one will, then they're just...
Luke 18:18 And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” 19 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.”
First, while we don't have a precise date for the emergence of protolife, there's been life on earth for at least 3.5 bn years. So the millions of years of lifelessness were the earliest years of our planet. We're at the far end of a sequence at least 3.5 bn years long.
Second, we have no...
The Jewish people had no reason to think of Jesus as a messiah, since he was not a civil, military or religious leader of theirs, and had never even come close to being anointed by the priesthood (which as you know is the meaning of messiah / christus). Nor, rendering unto Caesar the things...