Christians say that Jesus chose to die for our sins; then please explain why he would have said while on the cross " oh father why have you forsaken me?"
Are these words that would have been uttered by a person who have chosen to die ?
2006-08-28 23:13:48 · 6 answers · asked by shafiq 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
let me just correct you.
he did not say Father! he said my God.
he said "Ilahi ilahi lema shabaktani" which means my God! my God, why haven't u forsaken me?
they will tell you because he carried all the sins of the world, therefore God didn't look at him. christians following their own though and guessing. they came up with this excues because they couldn't find an explanation. but there is no single evidence behind this "God didn't look at him because of all the sins he carried". they are just guessing that this maybe the cause. and it's all not True.
2006-08-28 23:22:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was reciting the first words of Psalm 22, which was written a thousand years before, which described a (his) crucifixion, and which also revealed many personal observations from the perspective of the crucified one.
Read it carefully, with the aid of a good concordance.
Psalm 23 goes on to speak of God's saving love, and of resurrection.
This was just God's way of telling ordinary people from every generation, that all of these events were pre-ordained by God from ancient times.
Jesus willingly became our sacrificial victim. Of that there can be no doubt.
Jesus was designated as the "Lamb of God", spotless and undefiled, from before the creation of the world.
No one had the power to take his life from him without his permission. Since his death did in fact occur, then he certainly chose to voluntarily give up his life for his friends.
Of course, he also took his life back up again three days later, when he rose again from the dead on Easter Sunday.
2006-08-29 00:02:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answer: “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). Here, Jesus was expressing His feelings of abandonment as God placed the sins of the world on Him – and because of that had to “turn away” from Jesus. As Jesus was feeling that weight of sin, He was feeling separated from God for the only time in all of eternity. It was at this time that 2 Corinthians 5:21 occurred, “God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” Jesus became sin for us, so He felt loneliness and abandonment - separation from God.
2006-08-28 23:19:08 · answer #3 · answered by aftwine 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not words of regret for dying. Jesus could not stand it that He would be separated from God (for the time He was dead). That was the worst thing to Him, to be left by God.
2006-08-29 00:00:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Father forsook Jesus temporarily so he could have Christ's followers as sons and daughter forever
2006-08-28 23:22:49 · answer #5 · answered by thunder 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know where's the contradiction
2006-08-28 23:43:42 · answer #6 · answered by The born-again christian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋