Why did Jesus convert to atheism on the cross, when he asked "Father, why hast thou forsaken me?" ?

Question

Mind you, the question is not 'if' but 'why' Jesus became an atheist. Which means I present the conversion of Jesus as a fact. So, I won't accept answers which deny this fact.

I do this, because presenting questions as 'facts' seems to be quite normal here on Yahoo!Answers. Only the last hour I've read how Darwin recanted on his deathbed, how Hitler was never a Christian, how Stalin killed people in the name of atheism and how all Muslims deep down have terrorist tendencies according to research.

I truly hope Yahoo doesn't advertize with how many facts can be found on Yahoo!Answers.

Anyway, why did Jesus become an atheist?

Answer 1

The ignorance of this question is only exceeded by the arrogance of the asker.

Get a life. My gaydar is screeching as I read this. My best guess is that youre an angry cross dresser that has no life and no friends. From what I hear though, Jesus still loves you anyway.

Answer 2

That is a very good question with a simple enough answer...He did not say that!!! How could he have in light of who he was? It makes not sense.

That is just one of the many fabrications in the bible. I'm not saying that the entire bible is a fabrication (nope that is not what I'm saying at all!) just the parts that clearly contradict each other and contradict the very nature of GOD. As to the accuracy of rest of the bible am not sure about so i cannot say.

Any intelligent, lettered person who has read the entire bible with an open mind can see this. Throw out the garbage the clergymen spoon feed you. Use the brain God gave u. The logical conclusion jumps out at you. It's really not that hard to see.

Just think about it for a few (sorry... seems u have given it some thought or you would not have posted this question). Here is a MAN (hint! born from the womb of a woman. Felt the demands of his body to eat, sleep, use the toilet, etc. ) chosen by GOD (the same God to whom he fell on his face with his forehead to the ground in worship) to guide the "lost sheep of Israel" to the path from which they had strayed. He more than anyone would know better and to ask GOD such a question! That question is a declaration of disbelief, as you have correctly concluded.

I believe in Jesus Christ the MESSENGER of THE ONE GOD

(none of that trinity stuff. It is not in the bible. The part that said "For there are three who bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one " this has been thrown out of the KJV Revised English Version as a fabrication, so u won't find it there any more. I have yet to come across a priest, clergyman or a church official who is able to articulate that THEORY to me...'cause no where in the bible did Jesus say I am God worship me. It does not make sense for him to forget to mention something that important).

There is too much conjecture surrounding different parts of the bible. One of them is Jesus' supposed 'death on the cross,... let's leave that one for another time. But to get back to your question...NO! Jesus was not an atheist.

I advice you to read the bible again carefully. This time pay attention to the things that stand out as just plane ridicules and nonsensical, like prophets having intercourse with their daughters or killing womens' husbands so they could sleep with their wives. While reading keep in mind that these are the best among all mankind, CHOSEN BY THE ONE TRUE GOD as leaders and examples for all humans. That makes NO sense. As you reread the bible with this in mind, TONS more questions will come up.

To accept the bible's testament of these aspects of the prophets' lives is to say that God is flawed. God, the creator, the sustainer who needs no sustenance, the knower and seer of all is flawed in a way that he would give us prophets who commit such sins to follow as examples, examples. NO WAY MAN!!! Jesus is no an atheist because be would never say a thing like that.



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Answer 3

Accept it or not you are still not right in your theory. However, you are close. You forget, atheist's don't acknowledge the existence of God. Even in his ultimate condition of sin, Jesus did.
Jesus began his passion in the garden on the night of his capture by the Roman army. He prayed vehemently that he might not have to suffer the cross. Why? Because it meant SEPARATION from God. That, to Jesus, was a fate worse than death. Nevertheless, he submitted. He bore the cross, while despising the shame. That went all the way back to the laws of Moses, which counted it an abomination to be crucified. A crucified body could not be buried on holy Israeli ground. Jesus wasn't concerned with that because he had no intention of staying in the ground, and he didn't, but he was born and raised a Jew in his earthly persona.

Jesus had to separate from God for two reasons (1) there is no sin in God, and (2) to take on the sins of the world. He, at the moment you speak of, ceased being both wholly God and wholly man (a mystery of God) and became a sacrifice for sin; past present and future. Even then he had enough sense to call on God, the forgiver of sins! This is why Rabbis got so angry when Jesus told those he healed that their sins were forgiven! The meaning in his pronouncement declared him God, which he was and is!
During his crucifixtion, his voice was both mine and yours (if you only accept him) at that time and perpetually.
In that moment he became the "lamb of God who came to take the sin out of the world" just as his cousin John the Baptist called him when he came to John to be baptised.
Annually, priests of Isreal sacrificed a scape goat to atone for man's sins. So Jesus, seeing that while the law of Moses was perfect (it was given by God, so it was perfect) it could not be perfectly practiced by man, became the sacrifice. Everything in the old testament, or Torah, about sacrifice forshawdowed this: including the lamb that came out of the bush at Abraham's obedience during the sacrifice of Issac. Issac bore the wood for his slaying himself (the cross) and willingly obliged his father. Abraham (God's figure in both man and Christ) ultimately was willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
You just can't get around this no matter how you look at it. Jesus was never an atheist. He called on God the father while in sin, just as we all should.
God bless you.

Answer 4

Jesus didn't convert to stupidism! You need to realize that in Matthew 27:45-47 Jesus is hanging on the cross, in more pain than you know, and at the same time God had turned His back on Jesus for a brief moment because Jesus had all of the sins of the world put upon Himself. God abhors sin.

I AGREE 200% with jobees.

Answer 5

Father why have you forsaken me
Jesus became sin so we could be forgiven
sin has to be separated from God
So for a short time God turn his back on Jesus
God rasied Jesus up to prove that Jesus is God son
The trinaty Three in One (like eggs)
Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Jesus is our way to the Father
if we accept the great salvation

Answer 6

I never read in the bible Jesus say I am an Atheist
Psalm 22:1 has the words, "My father, my father, why hast Thou forsaken me?" Jesus uttered these same words in Matthew 27: 46. It reads in this manner: "Eli, Eli, lamasabachthani?" which is interpreted to mean the same thing.

Answer 7

To be an atheist is to reject God.

When Jesus was on the cross, God rejected Jesus.
Actually, God's presence could not be with Jesus at that time on the cross, because Jesus took all of our sins on him self at that time, and the Jesus was separated from God just as we are separated from God when we do not repent of our sins.

Jesus was totally aware of God's presence, and to NOT feel the Father in His greatest time of need was very shocking to Jesus (even though Jesus knew it was going to happen).

Answer 8

You have no understanding of the things of God, being a nonbeliever and devoid of the Spirit of God. Jesus said this because it was at that time He was bearing the sin of all mankind, and the Father had turned away from Him as He, the sinless One, had become sin. Also you have conveniently left out that after He said this, as He was about to die, He looked up to the Father and said "into Thy hands I commit My Spirit". That doesn't sound like an athiest to me.

Answer 9

Jesus did not become an atheist-how can you conclude this?
God abandoned Jesus on the cross when the sins of the world came upon Him. God can not tolerate sin, he is holy. My sin and your sin was charged to Jesus. He was pronounced guilty even though he was innocent. Jesus was alone on the cross- God left him because of the sin.
Jesus could not become an atheist-because he "IS" God.
Your question is -stupid.

Answer 10

Linda is right Christ wasn't accusing his father of abandonment. He was in fact quoting psalm 22. which is a prophetic psalm that foretells of Christs crucifixion right down to the Romans gambling for his clothes. That was Christs way of saying " i am the savior spoken of by the prophets. Can you believe he did this with some of his last breaths. WHAT A MAN!!!