Why has thou forsaken me?
Was Jesus comitting blasphemy, and why did he say this?
2006-09-03 11:53:55 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh heavens to Betsy no, child. He was asking His Dad why He was being so damn harsh. He was entirely within His rights.
After all, you can kick a dog all day if you want, and still expect it to come when you call, but you have no right to expect the dog not to whine while you kick it. It's only natural.
So when God figured that the only way for Him to understand humanity was to knock up a little Jewish girl and then have His Son horribly tortured and executed, why, He just purely had to know that Jesus Bar Josef would do a bit of complaining, didn't He?
Blasphemy? Hell no! It was required dialog.
2006-09-03 11:59:28 · answer #1 · answered by Grendle 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
No Jesus was not blasphemous when he said this!
He was on the cross bearing the pain of the whole worlds sins in His body! At that moment He was crying out to His Father!
2006-09-03 19:18:08 · answer #2 · answered by zoril 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't blaspheme... did He curse God?
He was saying this because He was in the flesh and the flesh was in a great deal of pain and suffering. Also Jesus was without sin and BECAME sin. The Father cannot look to sin, so in a sense He did forsake (turned from) Jesus.
2006-09-03 19:01:23 · answer #3 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
he was a man dying in pain on a cross after having been beaten and tortured for hours. saying this was not a sin, he was feeling just that: forsaken, right before he died. no it wasnt blaspemy. what does blasphemy mean to you?
2006-09-03 18:56:55 · answer #4 · answered by Nikki 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. He spoke these words to show that even though it may seem that God has forsaken us in our darkest hour, He never will. He then committed His Soul into God's care. He didn't lose faith ever (that would be kind of hard since He was God). ;)
2006-09-03 19:08:14 · answer #5 · answered by oremus_fratres 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not Jesus, so I cannot say for sure what He was thinking. Perhaps He wanted to die quicker because of the terrible pain. He was, after all, a man on this earth, living as we live. I'm sure He wanted to be relieved of the pain and suffering of this earth, so He could rejoin God in His heavenly kingdom.
2006-09-03 18:57:26 · answer #6 · answered by TJMiler 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus became sin for the world, God cannot dwell with sin. Jesus simply affirmed what state He was in , a sinner on his way to hell.
2006-09-03 18:56:31 · answer #7 · answered by icyhott4urmind 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is regarded as the son of god but not god
2006-09-04 03:26:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Christ the son of Mary was no more than an Messenger; many were the Messengers that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth make His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth!" QURAN (5:75)
2006-09-03 19:48:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was dying, I think we can excuse him 4 believing 4 a split second or so, that his Father was not there with him.
It must B a dying thing inducing a strong connection with God, that no1 until that happens, may truly understand.
2006-09-03 18:57:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋