Why would Jesus say God why have you forsaken me on the cross when he agreed to do what God asked him to?

Answer 1

That was the pain talking.

Answer 2

Jesus was both fully God and Fully man. When Jesus went to the cross He took all of the sin of mankind into himself, All of the sin: Past,present and future. God can not abide sin in His presence. When the sin entered God left the mortal body. The connection between the man and God was broken for that tiime that Jesus was on the cross and carrying the sin within him.

Answer 3

Through his life he called God Father.
On the cross when he said "my god my god why have you forsaken me?"
He was teaching, that is from Psalms 22

1 My God, my God , why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, and am not silent.

Answer 4

"Eli, Eli, lama savachthani?" that is, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?" This cry is a fulfillment of Psalm 22:1 one of many striking parallels between that psalm and the specific events of the crucifixion. The psalm reads, my God, my God why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, and from the words of My groaning? Christ at that moment was experiencing the abandonment and despair that resulted from the outpouring of divine wrath on Him as sin-bearer.

Answer 5

It's a way of showing Jesus' humanity in a great trial of personal faith. He wasn't Superman-he felt physical pain and bled when he was cut. I believe the truth about Jesus' life and death is even more startling than what formal religion says about him. He was a supernaturally inspired individual who often did the impossible and convinced others that they could too if they would only believe.

Answer 6

Jesus had taken on himself the sins of the world. Sin causes a separation between the sinner and God.

Jesus was experiencing not just death as we know it, but the eternal death that is the payment for sin - complete separation from God.

That's what killed him. That's what will kill sinners in the end.

Answer 7

Its called an act....like when youre on stage. See, the entire crucifiction was just that - an act. And, as such, Jesus had to have some dialog with this mythical "God" figure, so as to make the scene more engaging to the audience.... Longest running show on earth....

Answer 8

I think God allowed Jesus to feel completely alone so he could understand what human suffering is all about, from personal experience. Even when willingly performing God's will, and with great faith, we ask "why? Why me? Why this?"

Answer 9

Some say because the Lord turned His face from Jesus at that very moment because all the sins of the world were upon Him, and therefore the Father could not look upon Him. At that moment Jesus felt truly lonely.... =(

Answer 10

Keep in mind that Jesus suffered for OUR sins, not His own. For the atonement to be complete, for Him to take on our suffering, for Him to be able to have the ultimate empathy for us, God, the Father had to withdraw His spiritual support from Jesus for a short while. To Jesus, who was very accustomed to this support, it must have seemed terribly lonely and difficult.

Answer 11

I've always been under the impression that the story of Jesus saying "God why have you forsaken me?" illustrates what C. P. Snow must have meant when he wrote "Each of us dies alone." Death is the most extremely individual event in each of our lives. No one can do it with us. We are, at the point of death, utterly alone.