Did God lose control when Jesus went to the cross, or was it planned in advance?
God did not lose control. Scripture teaches He spared not His own Son but delivered Him up of His own volition, and Christ’s death on the cross was predetermined before anything was created. It was foreordained that He had to die for the sins of mankind.
Les teaches 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 let the Roman soldiers nail Him to the Roman cross and put Him to death, and God did nothing to stop Him. This was not God losing control; it was all predetermined before anything was ever created that Christ would go to the cross. 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. Everything Paul taught in Romans, especially chapter 8, rests on this fact.
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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.