Why did he look up into the sky and say "God why have you forsaken me", when he knew he was supposed to die?
2006-08-16 13:26:52 · 19 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I find this to be a clue to believing that there is no god. I don't mean to offend anyone, but if you were to put yourself in this position....you could probably understand during this circumstance that there is no god. Maybe he realized it.
2006-08-16 13:41:13 · update #1
He didn't. We don't in truth know what he said but logically if he was as open to God as the bible says then he would have had no reason to question, no reason to fear. So logically, he didn't.
That part is made up, or edited to make the rest of Christianity "behave" or face the alternative .... a nasty horrible death at the hands of your enemies.
It isn't a matter of faith. It's a matter of learning and exploring your path to God and the strength and peace that comes from it.
2006-08-16 13:37:31 · answer #1 · answered by mother 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When Christ was crucified he became sin, so God could punish it. The Father cannot look on sin or have any fellowship with it. As Christ took on our sins, he experienced the breaking with Father than each human earned...so that each of us might be spared that wrenching forsakenness. I don't take Jesus' statement as abandoning his faith...because I don't think he had faith to start with. Faith is walking according to something unseen, and Jesus had already been with the Father and already understood the whole plan from beginning to end. I think what you have here is an emotional outburst of pain.
2006-08-16 13:39:54 · answer #2 · answered by marshwiggle 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He wasn't doubting His faith or God.
When He took our sins upon His shoulders, God couldn't look at Him.
Think of all the sins in this world, and I do not mean white lies ot stupid things like that- although a sin is a sin and there are no degrees.
But think of the ugliness and hate that was laid on Jesus, willingly I have to add, and it was no wonder God turned away. I am constantly surprised He does not wipe us all out. That He loves us.
Read Wendy Alec's- The fall of Lucifer- it will open your eyes to the ugliness of sin. Or read the newspaper-
2006-08-16 13:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by IN Atlanta 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus didn't doubt his faith; He knew He was who He said He was. But He did feel the presence of God leave Him when He was on the cross which made Him cry out. The reason God turned away from Jesus when He did was because Jesus took the sin of the whole world upon Himself and God cannot look upon sin.
2006-08-16 13:37:51 · answer #4 · answered by missingora 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus didn't know that he was supposed to die. Jesus was supposed to restore Jerusalem to the Jews, that is the definition of Messiah -- someone who returns a homeland to their rightful people. Jesus originally thought that he was going to do this during his natural life, the whole "dying and coming back" thing was made up to rationalize the fact that he died by his followers. And even if that is not true, the guy was nailed to a wooden cross alone, in a hell of a lot of pain, with no one coming to save his life. You saying that no matter how devout you were, no matter how sure you were that you would be saved by God's love, you wouldn't doubt just for a moment in such a situation?
2006-08-16 13:36:02 · answer #5 · answered by Isis-sama 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He did not he was teaching!
during His suffering, and confirming Himself as Messiah...by quoting the 22nd Psalm...which begins with those very words. It describes His crucifixion in detail...one thousand years before the fact! Please... read Psalm 22 for yourselves, and see just how accurate the prophecy was. It is also a fact that Jesus NEVER addressed God by any other name but Father!
2006-08-16 13:42:23 · answer #6 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did not doubt His faith.
What he said has BIBLICAL meaning/representation.
What He said is the mourn of the sinful mankind He represents during His suffering in the cross. (II Corinthians 5:21; Roman 6:23)
2006-08-16 13:39:42 · answer #7 · answered by Neo_Apocalypse 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you picked a lousy verse to support your atheism this one was an important thing he did
It seems, that in addition to the fearful suffering incident to crucifixion, the agony of Gethsemane had recurred, intensified beyond human power to endure. In that bitterest hour the dying Christ was alone, alone in most terrible reality. That the supreme sacrifice of the Son might be consummated in all its fullness, the Father seems to have withdrawn the support of His immediate Presence, leaving to the Savior of men the glory of complete victory over the forces of sin and death.
That period of faintness, the conception of utter forsakenness soon passed ... Fully realizing that He was no longer forsaken, but that His atoning sacrifice had been accepted by the Father, and that His mission in the flesh had been carried to glorious consummation, He exclaimed in a loud voice of holy triumph: "It is finished."
2006-08-16 13:56:25 · answer #8 · answered by mobile auto repair (mr fix it) 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because He felt the separation at that time...from God. Jesus was born in human flesh, and went through the emotions that we go through, although He knew no sin.
Notice, He did not condemn the people who were hurting Him, instead He said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do". What wonderful love! eh?
2006-08-16 13:35:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He didn't doubt. He felt Father God's presence leave, because when He died, Jesus took the sins of the world upon Him, and Father God cannot bear to be in the presence of sin.
2006-08-16 13:35:14 · answer #10 · answered by smartee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋