Did Jehovah's Parents not want to let Him go?

[nuclearfuels]

Parental love.

They knew what was coming.

THey knew what it would cost.

He was Thier Firstborn.

They knew He would be successful.

Even though They knew it needed to happen, I don't know if They wanted to let Him go. 

What do you all think?

What terms describe these parental feelings? 

[bluebell]

Maybe they felt like a mother with a daughter who has just gone into labor.  She knows what is coming, and how painful (and dangerous) it will be.  She likely wishes it didn't have to be like it is.  And if my own mother is any indication, watching her daughter go through it is really hard.  But she knows that the child coming is worth it.

[Hamilton Porter]

Like this song.

https://youtu.be/1eqpHvzkc_0

[The Nehor]

He volunteered for this insane rescue mission. Why would God oppose a noble impulse?

[pogi]

Big picture - they wanted him to go.   They knew it would be an ultimate good. 

Christ said "thy will, not mine be done."  If it wasn't the will of the Father it wouldn't have happened. 

It is one of those paradoxes of wanting it from the big perspective but not wanting it from the small perspective.  I think we all experience that paradox in different ways in our lives but on a infinitely smaller scale.  

 

Edited May 6, 2023 by pogi

[CV75]

7 hours ago, nuclearfuels said:

Parental love.

They knew what was coming.

THey knew what it would cost.

He was Thier Firstborn.

They knew He would be successful.

Even though They knew it needed to happen, I don't know if They wanted to let Him go. 

What do you all think?

What terms describe these parental feelings? 

Empathy comes to my mind; He only followed Their example. I have the sense that They would not have required anything less than what They were doing on Their own and more advanced scale.

[The Nehor]

My unorthodox take is that Jesus and Adam and Eve came to the Father and said, “Okay, we don’t want to leave all the fallen behind. We have a plan. Can this work?”

[Pyreaux]

12 hours ago, nuclearfuels said:

Parental love.

They knew what was coming.

THey knew what it would cost.

He was Thier Firstborn.

They knew He would be successful.

Even though They knew it needed to happen, I don't know if They wanted to let Him go. 

What do you all think?

What terms describe these parental feelings? 

I think there are many noble parents who affirm their adult child’s decision to participate in a dangerous, even life-threatening, humanitarian intervention that they are willing to sacrifice their child, whom they love more than anything, for the sake of the worthy goals of the intervention. Such as war.

Such a term is Self-Sacrificing. As sacrifices are typically when values conflict - two valuable things cannot both be had and one must be given up for the sake of the other. Like leaving the comfort of your nice house in order to live in a small apartment closer to work, or to fast and tithe for blessings. But self-sacrifice is giving up something of themselves for some greater benefit to others. One chooses to participate in the action clearly makes a self-sacrifice of their own safety or life, but so do those who love them. By virtue of sacrificing what matters to them for the sake of someone or something else.

[Jaydes]

He did not really have parents in the sense that we do. He was the "Son" in that he was the Incarnation of God in the flesh and temporarily removed from a lot of his knowledge at first.  He wanted to go, and he and the Father are one.

Edited May 7, 2023 by Jaydes