Matthew 27:46
About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" - which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
2007-09-24 23:57:43 · 17 answers · asked by veerai 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because He also said after that "Father into your hands I commit my Spirit", and God testified of His acceptance by raising Him from the grave. He also testified of Him that "This is my Son in whom I am well pleased".
2007-09-25 00:02:27 · answer #1 · answered by beek 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Lol. You might want to read the context of Matthew 27. Jesus was quoting from the Psalms. It might do you good to read the Psalm in question and get the full context, for that will answer your question. As far as worshiping a condemned MAN, you are assuming (without any evidence offered) that Jesus was only and solely man and not also fully God. Secondly, He was condemned unjustly through false accusations.
2007-09-25 00:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by joeiscatholic 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because the "condemned man" was the complete sacrifice for the sin of all mankind. And three days later He rose from the dead. Jesus was and is God in human form. If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus; what He said, what He did, and how He loved people.
2007-09-25 00:04:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus took all of mans sins upon Him.That is why God the Father had to turn away because God is so Holy there is no sin in Him.When Jesus died the sin disappeared and then Jesus had no sin on Him.Jesus never sinned but He took mans sins and the sins with Jesus were crucified on the cross
2007-09-25 00:12:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was never abandoned by God, but sin seperates man from God. When Jesus was on the cross He bore our sins which momentarily seperated Him from God.
Jesus was not questioning God, He was quoting the first line of Psalm 22 - a deep expression of anguish He felt when He took on the sins of the world, which caused Him to be seperated from His Father. This was what Jesus dreaded as He prayed to God in the garden to take the cup from Him (26:39). The physical agony was horrible, but even worse was the period of seperation from God. Jesus suffered this double-death so that we would never have to experience eternal seperation from God.
2007-09-25 00:11:28 · answer #5 · answered by zero_or_die77 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was perfect, therefore not intended to die like mortals. For Jesus to die, God had to pull his holy spirit from him. Jesus remained faithful until the end, thus proving Satan wrong that no man will follow God out of love (which gives the rest of humankind a chance). It was only for three days, in which God brought him back, gave him a kingdom and later on laid all his enemies at his feet.
Christians should not worship Jesus (Jesus himself told us to worship only the Father) but he is the medium between humans and God.
2007-09-25 00:04:25 · answer #6 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Which people would that be then? Not Christians, we worship the second person of the Trinity, Jesus, fully man and fully God. He chose to die, it was not a surprise to him that God turned his face away, it was necessary so that our sins were paid for. And a quote from the psalms too.
Maybe you mean the JWs who don't believe Jesus was divine.
2007-09-25 04:57:03 · answer #7 · answered by good tree 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you really think God forsake him, No God did not, But Jesus carried the sins of the whole world on him, & as a man he was showing his human side, It was God that raised Jesus up from the dead, so does that look like God forsook him, No.
2007-09-25 00:12:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not religious and even I understand the point .
Jesus believed he had been forsaken but by giving himself over completely to God and trusting in Him, he was saved!
IF you follow the Bible, you will see he wasn't abandoned or condemned.
Was the point of your question to suggest Christianity is wrong?!
2007-09-25 00:20:40 · answer #9 · answered by justasiam29 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus took upon his body the sins of the entire world. HE was a perfect sacrifice for you and me. Jesus did it willingly. At the hour of death he had on him all the sufferings, pain, guilt, and punishment for every sin ever committed. God could not look upon his son in that condition (could you) He could have stopped it but knew that it was out of love that Jesus was suffering. Sin separates you from the love of God and Jesus had all our sin. Jesus was triumphant over death and hell. Victorious over sin and thru him you can be saved. Romans 10:9-10
2007-09-25 00:03:15 · answer #10 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Good question, let me answer simply by quoting a letter one of the first believers in Christ sent to a church in modern day Greece:
"For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength."
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
2007-09-27 22:59:27 · answer #11 · answered by trebor88 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋