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1 | WAS JESUS FORSAKEN BY HIS FATHER? | Matt 27:46 | Searcher56 | 41017 | ||
Did God forsake Him, or not? If God didn't forsake Him and it was JUST words to fufill prophecy, that would water down the Bible. | ||||||
2 | WAS JESUS FORSAKEN BY HIS FATHER? | Matt 27:46 | prayon | 41025 | ||
Greetings Searcher, Yes, in a sense God did forsake Him. When the sins of the world were laid upon Him during the hours of darkness He was alienated from God, just as sin in our lives alienates us from God. God saves us from our sin when we call on Him to do so. Jesus suffered in silence, bearing the weight Himself. He did not call out to Him until the cry in verse 46. Once He made that cry the Father came to Him and took away His burden. prayon | ||||||
3 | WAS JESUS FORSAKEN BY HIS FATHER? | Matt 27:46 | EdB | 41031 | ||
Prayon Then you believe God separated from Himself. Would you explain to me how? The COMMISSION of sin separates us from God. Jesus never acted in sin but took the sins of the world upon himself. There is nothing to separate Him from God, in fact there is no scriptural basis to think otherwise, except these words spoken by Jesus. Some say God can’t be in the presence of sin yet there is not scripture that says that, and we know that Satan (the personification of sin) appears before God (Job chapters 1 and 2). The question then becomes was Jesus really separated from God (by definition spiritually dead) as taught by so many; or was Jesus once more showing the world His deity? To me the answer has to be He was showing the world His deity. For me to believe Jesus was separated from God (which by definition is spiritual death) would mean part of the Godhead (deity) died, which is impossible. EdB |
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4 | WAS JESUS FORSAKEN BY HIS FATHER? | Matt 27:46 | prayon | 41039 | ||
Greetings Ed, You have made some good points. At the moment when the sin of the world was laid upon Jesus spiritual fellowship with the Father and the Holy Spirit was broken. "He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf" (2Cor 5:21). Where ever there is sin there is seperation from the Father. He had to of been seperated from the Father in some manner. How could one be in sin and still be one with God? I agree Jesus never acted in sin but He bore our sins. Sin is seperation from God. Our sins seperate us from God therefore when He took our sins (or 'seperateness' from God) He had to feel the same 'seperateness'. Maybe this is another one of those "ohhhhh soooo" questions. prayon |
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5 | WAS JESUS FORSAKEN BY HIS FATHER? | Matt 27:46 | EdB | 41046 | ||
To me to say Jesus was separated from God is the same as saying Jesus died spiritually. Since Jesus was deity that would be impossible! We know Adam died spiritually when he sinned because he was separated from God and we know we are dead spiritually before salvation through Jesus Christ because we are separated from God. Therefore Jesus to have been separated from God would have to been dead spiritually. For Jesus to die negates the scripture that says Jesus is eternal. That Impossible and make scripture conflict with itself! The whole concept that Jesus was separated from God by this verse is simply bad teaching. No other verse in the Bible even hints of that possibility. I believe it is bad teaching initiated by someone that, didn’t realize this utterance was a reference to Psalm 22 and in an effort to explain it, invented God abandoning Jesus. Nonsense, God does not abandon us when we are in sin. The words says to break even one part of the law is to break it all, so we were swamped in sin. God has promised never to leave us nor forsake us. And this promise is in both the Old and New Testament. EdB |
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