Les Feldick Bible Study

Did God lose control when Christ went to the cross?

No. The cross was not a moment when God lost control. Scripture shows God could have stopped it but did not; He delivered His own Son up by His own volition. Christ’s death was predetermined before anything was created, and God remained sovereign over the crucifixion.

Les explains that the God of all creation, full of majesty and power, could have destroyed the whole human race or the planet with a wink, but He did not. Instead, He let the Roman soldiers nail Christ to that Roman cross and put Him to death, and God did not do a thing to stop Him. This was not God losing control. Rather, He spared not His own Son but delivered Him up of His own volition, all predetermined before anything was ever created. Les emphasizes that God could have spared His Son and put an end to it all, but He did not, because He had foreordained that Christ had to die for the sins of mankind, and He did die.

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Was God in control when Jesus went to the cross?

God did not lose control when Christ went to the cross; Christ's crucifixion was predetermined before creation.

Was God in control when Jesus was crucified?

God did not lose control when Christ went to the cross, because that event was predetermined before anything was ever created.