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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Does Jesus Have One or Two Wills?

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Craig discusses the history of this fascinating question and draws some conclusions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bill this topic is good timing you've been studying this again as you're writing your systematic

0:13.5

philosophical theology. Give us an overview please. Well I'm currently working on the

0:18.5

Doctrine of Christ, which is called Christology and the doctrine of Christ is traditionally composed of two parts.

0:27.0

One is on the person of Christ and the other is on the work of Christ. The person of Christ asks who is Jesus Christ.

0:39.0

The work of Christ asks what did he do on our behalf to win our salvation. And so I have been

0:47.6

recently writing on the person of Christ the central issue of which is the incarnation. How can one person, Jesus Christ, be both

0:59.6

God and man.

1:02.6

By the way you have a longer lecture on this topic on the Reasonable Faith YouTube channel

1:07.7

that people can check out.

1:09.3

But let's look at some clips from W Robert Godfrey's lecture on this topic. Here's clip number one.

1:16.3

Monothelitism was the sort of last issue in the question of how the human and

1:20.9

divine nature's related to one another in Jesus.

1:24.8

The Church had reached this consensus at Calcedon, 451, that Jesus was one person

1:31.2

uniting in himself two full and complete

1:34.1

natures, a complete divine nature

1:36.8

and a complete human nature so that he was fully

1:39.6

human and fully divine.

1:41.0

Wasn't half human and half divine. He's fully human and fully divine. He's fully human and fully divine.

1:45.0

He said fully God and fully man, Bill. We're often taught that he was 100% God and 100% man.

1:54.8

Is that logically problematic?

1:56.8

I think the problem is that that is misleading, Kevin.

2:00.8

And I think that Godfrey did a good job of explaining what he meant.

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