Jesus' death was not only foretold, but depicted as a necessary step in God's plan for humanity. There was never any choice in the matter - Jesus didn't choose to take on this task and didn't choose to die. It was God's will, not his own, that all of this happen. This is the essence of the 'good news' of Christianity: if God wants you to suffer horribly and die for the sake of some greater cause that you'll never be able to understand, then that's exactly what you are going to do.
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Can someone explain why Jesus is crying out to God, because he has been forsaken, when he is supposed to be god? Why has Jesus forsaken himself? He’s his own son? Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? This and other questions should arise by reason and logic alone. Why don’t they?
Why did Jesus cry out ‘Why have you forsaken me?’
Now Sojourner that surely is a good question yer’ve asked here.
It does seem a bit out of order with nature of God and how He favored His son Jesus, for surely never have any who have hoped in Him, have been made ashamed of their hope; and never of any who have sought refuge in Him, have sought His loving protection in vain – Therefore making the reason why He did say this on the cross, as where the grief I feel of Him having been crucified to hit me the hardest, and literally bring me to my knees.
There are two different facets working here in this moment.
First being that as humanoids, we all have a sorrowful complaint of God’s withdrawing which may be applied to any child of God who are pressed down, or overwhelmed with grief and terror etc.
Spiritual desertions are the Christian’s sorest afflictions; but I’ve come to see even such complaints as these might burden, are a sign of spiritual life, and spiritual senses exercised.
So, fer us to cry out, ‘My God, why am I sick or poor?’ savors of discontent and worldliness; right?
Thus making our doing this becomes the language of a heart binding up its happiness in God’s favor.
Being truly man, this must be applied to Christ as well.
So He juss felt a natural unwillingness to pass through such great sorrows, juss like we would.
Many think that cos He was God with skin on, this made His suffering on the cross be experienced as not feelin’ so bad fer Him; like he had a special way to not feel the pain or somethin’.
But that’s not true; tho’ He was God, He made Himself into being a man in every sense.
In the first words of this complaint, he poured out his soul before God when he was upon the cross, but will see in Matthew 27:46, how His zeal and love prevailed.
So Jesus had spoken of the abject state to which he was reduced when the very moment He cried this out, was the same moment that all the weight of every sin ever committed by us humans was put upon Jesus.
He took he brunt of God’s full wrath whereas man’s sin is concerned.
He had never even sinned before; so imagine what this first time feeling sin must have felt like to Him?
Oh and to have to feel it at such a horrific moment – while being crucified.
But what’s worse, if yer can imagine a worse, is that since God cannot be a part of sin, so fer the first time ever in all eternity, God had to turn His face away from Jesus.
So the reason being fer Jesus saying this is because God is Holy, He cannot dwell where there is sin, therefore was forced to separate Himself from Jesus while the consequence of every sin ever committed was put upon His accountability.
“yer”, “fer”, “cos”, and “juss”?
Not only do I not know what you are talking about, your writing style is annoying enough that I could not finish your post.
The Bible is a collection of stories. Parts ring true while others don’t. But the truth is that there are no means to distinguish truth from fiction.
The whole Jesus story is so absurd that it boggles the mind.
Xians complain that Jesus died, but if he didn’t, and had a wife and 6 kids, wheres the drama?
Who Killed Jesus?
Not the Jews, as always blamed, since they weren’t the Civil government.
The Romans performed the task in the Jesus story, but it would not be pragmatic for Xians to blame Italians, especially the Catholic Church. So they pick the Jews to blame, and the Catholic Church have been hate mongers for 2000 years.
However, if there is a God which is all powerful, and it let Jesus die, therefore God killed Jesus. Blame God.
Also, why can’t God have an infinite number of human sons. Is there a God viagra he needs?