"Why did thy forsake me..." why didn't the father help him. Something doesn't add up here, if he was God in flesh then to which other God was he crying to??
2006-12-23 17:40:03 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe it hurt God so much to see his son dying. And Jesus was crying out to His Father, not Himself. They are two separate people.
2006-12-23 17:46:39 · answer #1 · answered by GraycieLee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well, his father was in the heavens. The father, the son and the holy spirit. The father was in the sky, the son was on the cross, and the holy spirit was around in everyone's concience. Jesus was God in the flesh, but God (the father) was the father in Heaven. What was done, had to be done. the pain, and all that was in it, had to be gone through. He new it, they both new it. Both willing. God never left Jesus's side. God bless you, and I hope this helped you even a little. :)
2006-12-23 17:52:14 · answer #2 · answered by apples 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-28 06:49:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was not the choice of Jesus to die like that. God was an abusive father. He didn't realize at the time that the majority of people on this planet choose not to be Christian and have other religions beliefs that could care less about Jesus Christ. God wishes that he could do it all over again. It would be different, guaranteed.
2006-12-23 17:48:42 · answer #4 · answered by The professor 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
justin –
So, it was coincidence? Jesus just happened to be nailed to a cross when he made (completely independent of the fact that he is being tortured) some physical voice sounds resembling language and interpreted by those who told the story as stated in the question?
I understand it if it is make believe, otherwise I have to go with the more obvious and reasonable explanation that he was reacting to the immediate situation.
2006-12-23 17:50:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because sin seperates us from God. When Jesus went to the cross He took all our sin on Himself, so for a moment He was seperated from His Father. God looked down, and saw all the sin that had been commited and that would be commited and He turned His face from the bearer of the sin.
2006-12-23 17:47:53 · answer #6 · answered by 4CHRIST 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is not God he was his living word the son of God. God didn't help him because he wasn't asking. According to the bible he could have called down ten thousand angels to destroy the world and set him free. Jesus said because at the last minute he took on the sins of the world and God cannot look upon sin so he turned his face away from Jesus. Jesus died on the cross not because he had to but because his father wanted him too and Jesus loved us enough too.
2006-12-23 17:41:58 · answer #7 · answered by Joshua 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
First, Jesus was really God's Son.
Not God in the flesh.
He made that cry:
"“E′li, E′li, la′ma sa·bach·tha′ni?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” -Matthew 27:46
Because he felt the divine protection of his Father, Jehovah God completely removed.
It was the first time since his creation (Proverbs 8:22-31) that he had ever felt that void. It was obviously very difficult, but he provided the answer to Satan the Devil's charge:
“Skin in behalf of skin, and everything that a man has he will give in behalf of his soul" - Job 2:4
However:
"Seeing, therefore, that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold onto [our] confessing of [him]. For we have as high priest, not one who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tested in all respects like ourselves, but without sin"
-Hebrews 4:14-15
Because of the selfless obedience that makes everlasting possible for us, Jesus was rewarded by his Father:
"Keep this mental attitude in YOU that was also in Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God’s form, gave >>no consideration to a seizure, namely, that he should be equal to God.
No, but he emptied himself and took a slave’s form and came to be in the likeness of men.
More than that, when he found himself in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient as far as death, yes, death on a torture stake.
>>>For this very reason also God exalted him to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every [other] name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground, and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord >>>to the glory of God the Father."
That is what makes him the Greatest Man Who Ever Lived!!!
2006-12-23 18:04:23 · answer #8 · answered by Livin In Myrtle Beach SC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because He was also a man. The way to appreciate this verse is to relate it to ourselves whenever we feel abandoned by God. God the Father did not abandon His only Son (the word of God) and He will always be there for us when we need Him.
2006-12-23 17:53:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a real theological explanation for your question...
but because we are among "friends" here, i'll try to explain it to you the simplest i can & the way i grasp it...
God is God,
God the Father (in Heaven) is God
Jesus (incarnate) is God
The Holy Spirit is God
when the man Jesus was dying on the cross, He had to be the sacrificial lamb who would take away the sin of the world... all the sins of the world was heaped upon Him to carry it to the grave... (He became sin itself) but as I have said God is God, so at that point in time, the Holy Spirit had to leave Him (for he was sin)... & God the Father in heaven have to take away His eyes upon Him as well, until He can take all that sin upon Himself to the grave... (& at that precise time... Jesus said "why have you forsaken me" -- & that was the only time that that have happened & will ever happen)
& Jesus is crying to God the Father in heaven
2006-12-23 18:09:52 · answer #10 · answered by 4x4 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋