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NASB | Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 22:1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? [Matt 27:46] |
Bible Question:
Okay, I've been studying the bible on and off for a couple of years. To much of my disappointment, I have wavered back and forth with my faith. I do have two questions that make me stay up at night: Question 1 While Jesus was on the cross he screamed out "My God, My God, why has thou forsaken me?" If Jesus was part of the Holy Trinity (not at the time until his holy spirit was blessed upon us with his death) why did he scream that out when he WAS God. Question 2: I read in Ephesians Chapter 1 that God saves only those who he wants to save. This was predetermined before the start of the world according to the passage below. 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,..." How is it then that people can be "saved" by accepting Jesus when those who he wants to save have already been saved. |
Bible Answer: Question 1: Most believe that God can not look upon sin and therefore had to turn His face from Christ while Christ carried our sin on the cross. As you have already mentioned there is no way we can comprehend what implications such a statement would have within the trinity. Combine that with the fact that this answer is nowhere found in scripture I have to personally reject this idea. Another less popular theory, which I think is correct, is that Christ was drawing upon the 22nd Psalm. What he cried out is the first line of Psalm 22. In doing so the point was to bring to mind the entirety of the Psalm. Psalm 22 begins in utter dispair over the apparent situation of God forsaking the Psalmist and ends in a triumpant cry of God's faithfulness. I believe the cry was meant to bring to mind the entire psalm including the ultimate assurance that even in this God is faithful and will deliver. We do this often actually when we state some short phrase of an inside joke and intend for the person to recall to mind the punch line and see how it applies to the current situation. We do this with a variety of things, a brief song lyric, a movie quote, etc. Christ was simply doing this with a Psalm. Question2: For time reason I can't currently give you the full picture to answer this. You are touching upon a very large topic. But here is a tiny bit to help with what you specifically asked. We were "chosen" before the foundation of the world. The actually saving was yet to be done. The payment at the cross and our receiving the gospel for salvation was yet to be completed. |
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