Why did Jesus ask God "why have your foesaken me?" Why would God do that?

Question

Didn't Jesus know everything about God or God himself (trinity)?

Answer 1

He was used to be with God His whole life, and when He took upon our sins..it was a heavy load...the first time ever He was not connected with His Father, because our sins separated Him form God...He felt lonely, He was in pain because He was in a human form then...He missed the Father but He could not feel His presence because He was carrying our sins...He did that so we would not ever have to be separated from our Heavenly Father...Through His words on the cross comes the truth when you do not let God wash your sins, you feel like He is forsaken you...even though it is the sin in our life that is hindering our relationship with God

God did not forsake His Son, but that how it felt like to Jesus when He had world's sins on His shoulders...God hates sin, because that separates our hearts from God...

Answer 2

The Holiness of God cannot co-exist with the evil of sin. Sin means "separation from God." For Jesus to take the sins of the world upon his mortal body, the spirit of God needed to exit for that moment immediately before death.

Added: After reading that He was quoting Psalms 22, I would like to add that yes, that suits the situation, indeed. The link to the scripture is below. My first answer is correct, but the entire situation is spelled out more fully in Psalms, since that was prophetic.

Answer 3

First, he could have meant it in the qualified sense that Jehovah had taken away protection from his Son so that Jesus’ integrity would be tested to the limit, a painful and shameful death. But God’s releasing of Jesus to the wrath of enemies directed by Satan did not indicate total abandonment. Jehovah continued to show affection for Jesus, as proved on the third day when He raised his Son, which Jesus had known would occur.—Acts 2:31-36; 10:40; 17:31.

Second reason for Jesus’ utterance using these words: he could fulfill a prophetic indication about the Messiah. Hours earlier Jesus told the apostles that things would happen “just as it is written concerning him.” (Matthew 26:24; Mark 14:21)
He wanted to carry out the things that were written, including things in Psalm 22, which gave so many prophetic indications of the Messiah’s experiences, begins: “My God, my God, why have you left me?” Hence, when Jesus cried out as he did, he was adding to the record of prophecies that he fulfilled.—Luke 24:44.

The psalmist did not believe that his God had simply rejected or abandoned him, for David went on to say that he would ‘declare God’s name to his brothers,’ and he urged others to praise Jehovah. (Psalm 22:22, 23) Similarly, Jesus, who knew Psalm 22 well, also had reason for confidence that his Father still approved of him and loved him, despite what God allowed him to experience on the stake.

Answer 4

Simple. Jesus became a man so people wouldn't cop out by saying, "Oh sure, Superman, it's easy for you to say, Don't get mad at someone who shoots you"

He felt pain, he cried, he laughed, he felt grief. In short he experienced everything we do and still turned the other cheek.
He turned down kingdoms and refused to make bread from stone when he was hungry because he had to show people that a human being could live the life he taught.

And yes, in the end, just like all humans under great stress, his faith faltered and he feared he had been forsaken. Of course, God had not forsaken him. But, just like the rest of us humans he (at least once) felt forsaken.

Yes, he was the Son of God. But usually he called himself, "The Son of Man."

Answer 5

At that moment on the cross, the sins of the world was placed on Him and God the father could not look upon sins. The Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, He was buried and took our sins away and He rose again the third day for our justification. That is the gospel that will get you into God's Heaven if you would only trust and believe in that.

Answer 6

That's Matthew 27:46.
True - He had taken on the sins of the world but there was something else going on as well.

This is, possibly, the only Aramaic quote in the Bible. To whom was He speaking? Most of the crowd, including the soldiers, spoke Hebrew or Greek. He was speaking to the priests - and they knew it.

He was quoting Psalm 22, written almost 1000 years before.

Check out verse 6: But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

A worm? What’s up with that?

The Hebrew lexicon is “towla”.

Check out “Towla”…


http://www.studylight.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number=08438


the worm "coccus ilicis" ++++

When the female of the scarlet worm species was ready to give birth to her young, she would attach her body to the trunk of a tree, fixing herself so firmly and permanently that she would never leave again. The eggs deposited beneath her body were thus protected until the larvae were hatched and able to enter their own life cycle. As the mother died, the crimson fluid stained her body and the surrounding wood. From the dead bodies of such female scarlet worms, the commercial scarlet dyes of antiquity were extracted. What a picture this gives of Christ, dying on the tree, shedding His precious blood that He might "bring many sons unto glory" (Heb. 2: )


Is that amazing or what?

Answer 7

I'm not a Christian, but I study all religions. He did that because when Jesus was on the cross he took on the sin of all the people and God can't look upon someone with sin, and anyone has anything different then screw you I'm right.

Answer 8

Because simply god is all, therefore he must be also forsakable. He uses these catsastrophes and such as befell jesus to not only bring him back to him, the lord, but to show the world that jesus was another man, let alone the son of god.

Answer 9

Firstly, Thank you for allowing me to respond to this Question.

secondly, with reguard to your Question. you may be asking because you are in doubt. which is completely normal.

because if you go to anyone and ask them to explain to you the trinity, they will not be able to give you an adequete answer.

Never once did Jesus (peace be upon him) claim to be God. If you look into the bible, if you have a red lettered one that highlights supposedly what Jesus has said, than never once will you find that he told his people to worship him. On the contrary, he said "Worship Thy Father Alone" i.e. worship God Alone.

Third of All, In Islam we believe in Jesus as a highly respected Prophet of Allah (God). just like Moses, Adam, Abraham, Noah, etc.

They All came with the same message : To worship the creator Alone.

Indeed, it is very blasphemous to say that Jesus Is God.
#1. Jesus was A human, and everyone will agree upon that. meaning he ate, slept, used the bathroom, etc. Things that Muslims Believe are not attributes fit for the Lord of the Universe, because he is free of all needs.

#2. The Christians believed that Jesus died on the Cross. How can God Die? if that were the case, than how can it be that he would be on the cross saying "Why have you forsaken me" to the one who is in heaven, if they were one in the same. and how is it that He knew he would die, but didnt know at the same time?

and if he died for 3 days, who was God during those 3 days?

nothing makes sense.

but everything in Islam Makes sense. wouldnt it be more logical that he were a Righteous Prophet of God, rather than God himself?

If you believe
1. that there is no object worthy of worship but Allah (God)
2. you believe in the angles
3. Heaven and hell
4. The Books that came before (the Old testament, Gospels, Quran)
5. you believe in the all the Prophets of God starting from Adam, including Moses, Jesus, Abraham, Noah, and Muhammad peace be upon all of them)
and finally
6. Divine decree.

than welcome to Islam.

Finally, if you do not wish to listen to anything i've said, at least do one thing which you have nothing to lose.

Seek guidance from God himself to guide you on the strait path, and see where it leads you.

I Swear by Allah, that if you Sincerely and whole-heartedly ask Him for Guidance to the truth. He will lead you to it.

you have nothing you lose.

I ask God to guide you all to the truth. ameen.

Answer 10

Because god has to turn his back on sin, And once he took upon himself the sin of the entire world god had no choice but to turn his back upon him, because god has to stay perfectly pure.

But god and jesus are one again, He doesnt bare it no more he forgives us after death he was able to fully forgive the world of all the sins tey will ever do if they ask.

Answer 11

This is really an interesting theological question. Research the life of Christ and you will find that this is the only time that Jesus refers to God by any name other than Father. At the moment He uttered the statement, "My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken me?", He was dying on the cross for my sin, your sin, and the sins of every person who has walked the face of the Earth at that time, or since. Up until that time, a Sin Offering was made by the head of each Jewish householder once a year and this covered his family members and slaves as long as the Jewish laws contained in Leviticus were obeyed, as well as completion of circumcision of each male member of the household. By offering Himself as a sinless and spotless sacrifice for the sins of the entire world, Christ was at that moment, due to my sin, your sin,etc., unworthy to address God as Father. In order for Him to die, descend into Hell and break the chains of sin for us, rising on the Third Day, God had to turn His back and allow it to happen. It was the ultimate expression of love to each and every one of us. That's why when we accept Christ by faith, we are saved by grace.

I don't know about you, but this sends shivers down my back.