Does Jesus have two wills?
In Mark 14:36, Jesus prays, “Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.” But, if Jesus is God, then isn't His will God's will? Why does it appear that His will has to conform to God's? Remember that, in the incarnation, Jesus became like us in every way. That includes developing a human will. As such, while He never sinned in His flesh, His will had to learn submission by facing temptation and overcoming it. In fact, the teaching that Jesus only has a single will (divine) rather than two wills (human and divine) is heretical. Calvin explains, This passage shows plainly enough the gross folly of those ancient heretics, who were called Monothelites , because they imagined that the will of Christ was but one and simple; for Christ, as he was God, willed nothing different from the Father; and therefore it follows, that his human soul had affections distinct from the secret purpose of God. But if