Subject: explain Mark 15:34 |
Bible Note: Hi EdB; I guess I don't see the connection with Romans 8:38-39 since that has to do with the assurance of our reconciliation with God accomplished by Jesus on the cross. But I do wonder why Jesus (quoting Psalm 22) would cry out to God who had "forsaken" him? Are you saying that was just a final scripture lesson for the benefit of the spectators and not a cry from the heart? It seems to me that this cry suggests (probably doesn't prove) that God the Father had indeed "forsaken" him somehow. To say that God "turned away" is more metaphorical than factual. Clearly, nobody really knows. I don't want to start a whole new trinity discussion, but they are also Three. I assume that it would be one thing for God to contenance Satan and his sin and something entirely different to see his own Son (and himself, in some mysterious way) stained with the world's sin. Peace and grace, Steve |