Did God really have to leave him as everyone else had done?
2007-10-24 08:21:41 · 47 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was quoting a verse from Psalms just as many Jews try to do on their deathbed. Usually they quote the Shema -- Deuteronomy VI.
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2007-10-24 08:37:43 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a really tough question. I know for a fact that I don't fully understand the answer, but here goes nothing. The first important thing to realize is that Jesus and God are one and the same. Christ made this clear in John 10:30 when He says "The Father (God) and I are one.” Also you need to understand that Jesus died on the cross:
A: On Purpose
B: To pay for our sins. Romans 3:23 tells us that "All have sinned," (meaning that God had a standard and we messed up) and Romans 6:23 says that "the wages of sin is death", meaning that since we have sinned we deserve damnation in hell. But the good news is, according to John 3:16, God loves us so much that he decided to take on Himself what we have earned. The second part of Romans 6:23 is "but the gift of God is eternal life."
Ok, now that all of that is out of the way...
John 3:36 says - "And anyone who believes in God’s Son has eternal life. Anyone who doesn’t obey the Son will never experience eternal life but remains under... judgment," which is to say "they will be... separated from the Lord and His glorious power." Therefore, in order to fully pay for our sins, Jesus had to literally turn His back on Himself and become, for the first time ever, separated from the Father.
It's a tricky concept, I'll admit. If anybody has any comments, I'd love to hear them.
2007-10-24 09:20:48 · answer #2 · answered by The Chaplain 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have missed the point. Jesus died for all of us, so we could be saved through him. If God had prevented his death or intervened---we would not be protected by Jesus's blood and his sacrifice. God did not forsake Jesus. But in his pain and suffering, Jesus felt he had been forsaken. It was important that he experience what we do. How else could he understand?
How else do you think he could save ALL of us? Second question..... God didn't leave him.... He is the one that raised Jesus up to Heaven and he sits by his side now. You make God sound like a dead beat father that didn't love his son and you are soooo far off that it's almost funny.
2007-10-24 08:34:29 · answer #3 · answered by Brenda 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was here to experience what we go through. Our punishment is separation from God for eternity. God let Jesus experience that as He bore our punishment. While Jesus bore our sins on the cross God could not be part of it.
But Jesus paid the price overcame death and rose again.
2007-10-24 08:30:12 · answer #4 · answered by Zed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus did not ask this question in surprise or dispair. he was quoting the first line of psalm 22. the whole psalm is a prophecy expressing the deep agony of the Messiah's death for the world's sin. Jesus knew he would be temporarily seperated from God the moment he took upon himself the sins of the world. this seperation was what he dreaded as he prayed in Gethsemane. the physical agony was horrible, but the spiritual alienation from God was the most ultimate form of torture for Him imaginiable
2007-10-24 08:32:13 · answer #5 · answered by droger144 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God can't look upon sin. Jesus took the sins of the people upon Himself. God could nothing but turn His back on Jesus for that moment in time.
2007-10-24 08:46:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God left the Humanity & Not the Diety of Christ as the Final "Once & for All Perfect Sacrifice" for Mankind. If (and it's True) God cannot Live with Sin, then All the Corruption of Sins for All Humanity, Past, Present & Future, that were laid on Christ in Hypostatic Union kept God Seperated from Christ on Our Behalf as Christs Human Body hung there on the Cross!!! "Christ who knew no Sin was made SIN FOR US, that we may be made Righteous through Him!" John
2007-10-24 08:40:45 · answer #7 · answered by moosemose 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was caring all the sins of the world while he was on the cross for our sake. Jesus was separated from his father because sin separates us from God. To Jesus it was like he was forsaken because he had never been separated from his father before.
2007-10-24 08:36:26 · answer #8 · answered by RAJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not desert Jesus. He was a gift to mankind; Jesus died as atonement for our sins. He took the punishment for you and me. He gave us a path to salvation, which was not a possible according the old law.
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him might not perish but have everlasting life."
2007-10-24 08:30:11 · answer #9 · answered by Gentle Dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Jesus always knew the time would come that his father could not look on him. He asked Father take this cup (suffering) from me but if it is your will I will suffer it.
This way though he never sinned Jesus knew what it was like to be 100% human. Since God cannot look at an unrepentant human in sin until they ask for forgiveness.
So Jesus died a sinners death for our sakes.
2007-10-24 08:27:15 · answer #10 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
According to St. Paul, "though he was in the form of God, [Jesus] did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross" (Phil 2:6-8).
Besides....Jesus was merely quoting Scripture in His hour of Passion and Death.
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Note that this is the beginning the Twenty-second Psalm.
According to the Gospels, Jesus spoke these words during the Crucifixion, after he had suffered on the cross for three hours.
2007-10-24 08:26:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋