Western theology usually has the will doing all the heavy lifting. In Life without Lack, Dallas concludes that Jesus’ victory over temptation in the garden of Gethsemane proves that “Jesus’ will was invincible.”[7] Yet Jesus is saying here, “Not My will, but Yours be done.”[8] Jesus was in the process of resisting His own will. Typically this complexity has been addressed by suggesting that Jesus was submitting His will to the Father. Given what we now know about the human brain, we must consider a different explanation. Jesus was using a human brain, and the strongest force in the
