Justa Berean

“If the Father has a will and the Son’s will is different from the Father’s in that the Father must take authority over the Son, then there can be no Son’s will at all. A will that is never expressed is not a will at all.”

Yes, good point. That is the picture that Burk is painting, right? My thought is that if anyone has to give up his will to another, then he has lost his will. But at one time he did have one.
It is my understanding that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are always of One Will. None has to give it up to another, none requires the other submit to His Will instead of their own. Only One Will, means there cannot be one who has the authority and one who submits to that authority. There is nothing to submit to if the Trinity has only One Will.

When hierarchalists try to add authority and submission into the Trinity they divide the substance of the Trinity and they seek to add in human thinking. It is difficult for humans to conceive of the actuality of three who are in perfect Oneness. We can only conceive in human experience of one who takes authority over others in order to maintain one will. That is grossly different to the Oneness of the Trinity.

Anyway, I’ll try to find some time to see what Giles has to say on this subject also.