1/6 I know some fine Christians have defended the possibility but I cannot see how eternal functional subordination can fit with God having one will. I can and do see that the Father loves the Son and the Son the Father and there is a personal willing of the one divine

2/6 will. That is also how the covenant of redemption is possible. But it is not that the Son wills a different will either as faculty or as material purpose. He wills the one will (purpose) in the one will (faculty). But he wills it as the Son in the divine essence while the

3/6 Father wills it as the Father in the divine essence. This means the Father wills as the unbegotten and the Son as the only-begotten. That is how Owen, A Brakel etc explain it. By contrast, EFS needs to show something quite different: that the Son as God wills a different

4/6 thing from the Father. Why so? Because even if the action (eg the death of the Son on the cross) is the one action their roles in it entail different will-acts. The Father wills a command, the Son wills obedience. These are not the same will willed distinctly by the Father

5/6 and Son, they are different acts. And if the acts are different then not only purpose but faculty is also different. A will of command is present in one faculty and absent in another, as is a will of obedience. From there things become very problematic indeed. The

6/6 right alternative is to identify such obedience as God's the Son's obedience according to his human nature and to reject EFS.