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Originally Posted by creekster
But that is exactly the point. If in the Garden he sincerely asks for the cup to pass, then he did not control them perfectly. Instead, he had doubt creep in at the very moment when it might acutally do the most damage. If he had no doubt, then why ask the question?
Can you have perfect faith and still doubt? How is that possible?
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I think the essential part of this that we need to take into account here is the phrase that comes before the one we're discussing and that is of course..."If it be thy will."
On a far lesser scale, how many times have we made an inquiry of God where in our own way, we're asking for the cup to pass...if it be his will...knowing full well that it is unlikely that our wants and desires for our adversity to pass are in fact not his will at all.
Christ had the same experience, but he was dealing with the ultimate sacrifice and while he knew that there was no other way, the human side of him, the side that laughed, cried, showed humility and many other emotions still gave him a need to ask the question.
Christ came down here under the pretense that he was here to do the father's will. While he was far greater than any man who has lived or will live on the earth, he still had human aspects to him. This experience illustrates that point exactly...he was here on his father's errand, he knew what he had to do, and yet he still asked...just in case his father's will had changed...but he knew it hadn't.