Wouldn't be much of a gift if he didn't have a choice, I think.

In all history, the only persons that ever had and exercised genuine free will were Lucifer, Adam, Eve and Jesus Christ. No other thing created ever had it or has it. Jesus exercised His free will by accepting His role in the plan of salvation set in motion even before the Creation, and executing the plan to completion and perfection.

They did not take his life he gave it freely! As Donovan said, he could have called 10,000 angels to put a stop to the crucifixion!

Yes, he could have called on angels from heaven to save him from death but he gave his life willingly.

Such is the condundrum of the Word made flesh. At once he had both the free will and all the failings of human flesh, and the pure goodness of God mingled in one form. Without both natures within Him, Christ could not have saved us. That is the point of the cross, to reunite man with God as it was in the Garden so very long ago.

If you believe that Jesus was human, then how could you argue that he did not have free will?

This is a theological quandry that is raised in Christianity by the doctrine of the Trinity. In the Jewish unitarian God, the question would never arise. In the Christian God with triune persons, the question arises because Christ was human as well as divine. If Christ was fully human, then He had to have free will since all human beings have it. If Christ is God, however, why would he have free will since free will includes the power to chose evil? If God is infinitely good, how then can He ever chose evil? By definition, evil cannot be included within infinite goodness. The infinite definition has no boundaries and is exclusive of anything opposed to it. The Doctors and Fathers of the early Church, I suppose, reconciled this conondrum with the doctrine of Two Wills, Two Natures and other corollaries for Christ as God and man.

The best example of that is in the New Testament, when Christ said to God in much turmoil before His death on the cross: Not by my will, but by your will be done. In short Christ was saying you gave me a will, but I only want to do what you want. Christ was also tempted by Satan in the wildness and yet He chose not to sin against the Father. In order for Christ to die for our sins He had to live a life of a human being in flesh. Christ had to be blameless/Sinless in order for Him to be the perfect sacrifice for everyone! So Yes He did have free will, just as Satan had when he chose to think of himself more beautiful, better ect than God. Good question!Sorry updated due to spelling! 2/7/2007 4:04 2 helpful

EVERYBODY has a Free Will.Many people never exercise it,though.

You can't get any more free willed than God. He is truth. He stated " And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."

UPDATE: I dont mean to make personalise comments about other raters comments here and I generally dont do this because I dont believe it is right (not unless it is in a positive context), but DarrenGJohnson has completely misunderstood the comment I made. I wasnt trying to make Him look schizophrenic at all and that was an unfair assessment of my comment, but trying to show that although He did have a free will like you say and I fully agree with, He was also fully God so in a way Jesus will was the Fathers will. The truth is interesting yet complex. I also did not mean that Jesus was controlled at all. I meant that Jesus had the ability to control His human side unlike us. We are so weak in that area! He was the ultimate example of perfection including self-control. ORIGINAL: Yes and no. With His free will, He chose to follow the Father and fulfil His will. Plus His human side would have had a will of it's own, but He controlled that. On the other hand, He didn't because since He was one with the Father, Jesus' will would have also been the Father's will. Because every word Jesus spoke was actually the Father speaking through Him. Yet they were clearly Jesus' words.

Yes Jesus had free will and freely submitted to the will of the Father and was in no way forced to do so. GenleJude speaks as if Jesus was schizophrenic, but this was not the case.

The rationale behind the alleged actions of Jesus was of little consequence, as they were a purported means to a broad, unspecified end. A far-greater query should be made as to the free will (or lack thereof) pertaining to the character Satan. If the Christian Devil did not enjoy this stipend (as the Bible alludes to), then Jehovah is the true villain of the piece (with humans as the massed puppetry, playing out the scripted steps of a third-rate, off-Broadway spectacle). On the other hand, if the Christian Devil retains personal autonomy (as the Bible ALSO alludes to), several common-sense scenarios spring to the fore (the biggest being the Sunday School stumper of Satan exacting a measure of retribution by making hell a much-nicer stretch of real estate than heaven). Theoretical musings, to be sure, and in need of constant realignment as we tear away from a sorrowful past into a more-hopeful future.

Of course he did. . .not an issue.