What did God do instead of destroying the world when Jesus was crucified?
Instead of destroying the world, God let Roman soldiers nail His Son to a Roman cross and put Him to death. God did not stop it; He spared not His own Son but delivered Him up of His own volition.
Les explains that the God of all creation, full of majesty and power, could have destroyed the whole human race or the planet with just a wink, but He did not. Instead, He allowed Roman soldiers to nail Him to a Roman cross and put Him to death, and God did not do a thing to stop Him. This is what it means that He spared not His own Son but delivered Him up of His own volition. It was not that God lost control.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
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What does it mean that God 'spared not His own Son'?
When Paul writes that God 'spared not His own Son,' he means God delivered up Jesus willingly, of His own volition; God had not lost control of the situation.