because he was in despair?
2007-04-18 04:11:40 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
GOD WHY? has't thou foresaken me?
2007-04-18 04:21:15 · update #1
Good point, I would like to know how many people would say Jesus cut himself and it was his own fault he got crucified for throwing tantrums.
Hands up all you assertiveness freaks!
2007-04-18 04:15:48 · answer #1 · answered by jenniesrainbow 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The cross was Jesus' goal from the start. It was no suprise to Him when the time came nor a relief from the suffering He underwent beforehand. Crusifixion is the most agonizing method of capital punishment ever devised and that very method had been written in prophesy hundreds of years before it was ever devised by the Romans. He more than anyone knew that He was fulfilling prophesies that were several thousands of years old. After all, He spoke them to the prophets, the Word made flesh. Jesus was God incarnate but that didn't take away from the feelings of stress that the human body goes through when threatened. The human side of him dispaired over what was about to happen just as you and I would have. That is why, while in the garden before He was arrested, He asked the Father if there was any other way to accomplish our salvation. His flesh was as weak and sensitive to pain as yours and mine. He could have backed out if He wished but our salvation was more important to Him that the hours of torture and suffering he had to face.
That is one aspect that I thought was so well portrayed in the movie 'Passion of the Christ'. Despite all the accusations and plots and torturing, He was focused on His goal.
2007-04-18 05:32:40 · answer #2 · answered by jb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's look at the life of the Savior. In the Garden of Gethsemane, He
agonized for hours in prayer, pouring out His heart and pleading, "Let
this cup pass from Me" (Matthew 26:39). But the Father's answer was
clearly "No." To provide salvation, God had to send Jesus to die on
the cross. Even though Jesus felt as if His Father had forsaken Him,
He prayed intensely and passionately because He entrusted God was
listening.
When we pray, we may not see how God is working or understand how He
will bring good through it all. So we have to trust Him. We
relinquish our rights and let God do what is best.
We must leave the unknowable to the all-knowing One. He is listening
and working things out His way.
2007-04-18 04:34:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One must think of Jesus as both man and God. As man he came to die (on the cross) and as a God he knew his destiny. At times the man nature overwhelmed him and so it felt to those watching him as if he was in despair.
But I think it is a terrible thing to know (have foreknowledge, that is)what sort of death you will die and by whom and still giving yourself up without flinching for it..... How would you feel if you were all powerful, able to wipe out mankind with the blink of your eye and still restrain yourself from doing anything despite people openly taunting you ,"You good for nothing......" and spitting, scourging, mocking and stripping you and tempting you to relieve yourself from the pain and suffering because you eminently have the power to do so. Only the redeeming act will get spoilt because of it. It will get nullified.
This taunt went right on till the end with one of the criminals hanging with him in the last minute asking him to save himself and freeing the other too.
But attributing more qualities to Jesus (about divinity and humanity and so on) will successfully lead us to the different heresies which plagued Christianity during the middle ages. Look up Arianism, Donaticism, etc.
2007-04-18 04:35:25 · answer #4 · answered by straightener 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think Jesus welcomed the cross at all. The night before, he prayed earnestly to God to "take this from him."
He *was* certainly in despair. He is the only person to, while on earth, experience complete separation from God. I believe that those who do not see Jesus as the only way to salvation will also experience that complete separation from God forever once they die. It is my hope that they do not.
2007-04-18 04:16:33 · answer #5 · answered by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the garden of Gethsemene, Jesus sweat as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground as he antiscipated the death he would die. However, he said, "Not my will but thine be done" ,when praying to his Father. Why? Because he had already agreed to go for God into this sinful world and become the ransome for sin for any who would believe.See Isaiah 6:8. When on the cross he uttered those memorable words, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" It was because he was made sin for us. Imagine...the only one who knew no sin being made sin!2Cor.5:21. God couldn't have sin in his presence, therefore had to turn his back on the Lord Jesus Christ during those three hours of darkness.
2007-04-18 09:20:09 · answer #6 · answered by noreputation 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus could of turned back and rejected what needed to be done at anytime. Remember the Garden of Gethsemene (sp) where He prayed so hard, he sweated blood. This was not something He did easily, but it was something that HAD to be done for all of mankind's salvation. There was no other way, other than for God to make a way for us to be forgiven of our sins. God doesn't coicide with sin, this is what Jesus knew and this is why Jesus did it. Its hard for humans to understand that kind of love.
2007-04-18 04:35:53 · answer #7 · answered by Mulereiner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He basically welcomed the will of God the father.
As written in the Bible when Jesus was praying in the garden at Gethsemane, he said that if this yoke can be taken away from him, then he wants it to be taken. However, not his will but the will of God the father.
2007-04-18 04:16:17 · answer #8 · answered by Allan Martin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think He was in despair. He suffered greatly in the physical sense. On the night he was betrayed he asked God to "take this cup from me", to release Him from what was about to happen. However, He knew it had to be this way.
2007-04-18 04:17:14 · answer #9 · answered by dianapowell2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible tells us that Jesus sweated droplets of blood as he was praying before he wet to the cross. He died on the cross because he needed to so that all people can be forgiven if they accept him, but he didn't have to as he could have called down angels to fight for him. However, he chose to for you so we can all be forgiven from the things we have done wrong and because of his phenomenal love for us all!
2007-04-18 05:33:21 · answer #10 · answered by kaleidoscope_girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear Friend,
Not at all, because he knew that he had sucessfully completed what he had been sent to do, reconcile us to God through a single act of perfect love.
God Bless
2007-04-18 04:20:02 · answer #11 · answered by ianptitchener 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋