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Subject: why did jesus think God had forsaken him |
Bible Note: Draco04 Your right there isn't a verse or even a hint that God has to turn His back to sin. When David the Psalmnist wrote the Psalm he was in sin did God turn from him or did God reach out through the prophet Nathan in love? Jesus in his quote of this psalm was once more reaching out to us in love. In in the agony of death itself His thought was on us and he was using this quote to once more point to the very psalm that described what was taking place. Notice also in verse Psalm 22:24 "For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Nor has He hidden His face from Him; But when He cried to Him, He heard. This clearly shows us God never left Jesus but as he promised would never leave or forsake us in our time of need. This should be a comfort to every Christian alive even when we aren't living as we should, God is always near, always ready to reach out to us, always raady to welcome us back. The whole idea God turned his back on Jesus is built on faulty assumations, the first being the Father and Jesus both being the One God are able divide. The second that God would forsake His Son at the very instant His Son needed Him most. EdB |