☦ Orthodoxy: "God Is In Control?" from St. Paul Greek Orthodox Church - Irvine, CA
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Dear friends and auditors of Ancient Faith Radio, especially those of you who have been listening to this very controversial podcast, which I never thought would be so controversial when I criticized the expression Relax, God is in control when I criticized the relax part and the God being in control part. The word controlis that the word that we really want to have? Because too many people, I believe, as Ive said already many times, when they think of God as in control, they think that he causes everything to happen exactly the way it happens, and he can change his mind on the way, and he can do what he wants, and this makes it very, very difficult to speak about Godespecially the God of Christ who was crucified and dies the most horrible death and he is the Messiah of Israel and Son of God in human fleshwhen you use such kind of language. So I would just like to make a couple more final attempts, and then maybe give some kind of suggestion to you, at least if youre further interested in what I personally have written or think about this, Im going to list it now, and you can find it for yourself very, very easily.
https://stpaulsirvine.org/relax-god-is-in-control-final-thoughts
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