This is the kind of twisted thinking I'm talking about that makes you guys the real legalists. Did Jesus in Gethsemane dream of how wonderful His Father was, or was His sweat as it were "great drops of blood"? By your logic, since Jesus was in the garden reasoning, You will drink the cup, You will drink the cup, He didn't love the Father.
Love is what leads us to fight temptation, but you Antinomianists have somehow convinced yourselves that once we accept Jesus as Savior and King, we're granted immunity against both temptation to sin and yielding ourselves to it...all while knowing full well that the way of escape that we might be able to bear it is provided.
To your question . . .
Hebrews 12:1-3
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Jesus didn't go to the cross because He had to. He wanted to. He wanted it to be easier, and asked His Father to make it so, but there was no change in His determination to die in our place, even if it meant incredible suffering.
You seem to have a propensity to put words into my mouth.
By your logic, since Jesus was in the garden reasoning, You will drink the cup, You will drink the cup, He didn't love the Father.
How have I ever said this?
I believe that as Jesus was in the garden, He was thinking about how much He loves us, and how difficult it was going to be to love us in the way we needed, that is, for Jesus to die what would be a brutal death. He didn't want the torture, but He was here for that reason, to die in our place, out of love.
Much love!
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