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Cheryl:
1. If one person willingly submits his will to that of another person because they are of one will in the first place, is that person’s being diminished in any way?

Answer: It is impossible for there to be “one will” if one is submitting his will to another. The fact that one has to submit his will proves that there is not one will but two wills with one will subordinated to the other.

Paula:
1. If one person willingly submits his will to that of another person because they are of one will in the first place, is that person’s being diminished in any way?

This is a logical impossibility. If they are of one will in the first place, then one cannot “submit” their identical will to the other. As God, both the Father and Son (and of course the Spirit) have one will. That makes eternal subordination of any of them impossible.

Only in the case of two different wills can we ask whether the submitter is “diminished”. If both beings are equal in being, then permanent and involuntary submission would indeed be a case of inequality and thus “diminishing”. In other words, it is impossible for equal beings to be permanently unequal in role, when one role has authority over the other. One being cannot be in a state of permanent and involuntary subordination to an equal being.

My response:
Thank you both Cheryl and Paula. The answers you gave were extremely clear and simple, so much so that there could be no confusion on this point.