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NASB | Mark 15:34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" which is translated, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?"--which is translated, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" [Ps 22:1] |
Subject: Please explain this verse? Mark 15:34 |
Bible Note: biblesawyer I looked this up and what you are looking at here is called the Hypostatic nature of Jesus Christ as being fully God and fully man. Hypostatic means constituting a distinct personal being or substance and theologicaly one of the three real and disinct substances in the one undivded essence of God and the one personality of Christ in which His two natures human and divine are united. It is the last one which you are dealing with here. Here is what I found by reading more than a few theologians, I will not quote, it is too long, I will summarize what I found. Some heresies about the nature of Christ - Docetism - Jesus only appeared as a man, he wasn't really one. God could not become material because material is evil. Nestorianism - Jesus was two separate persons. Eutychianism - Jesus was not fully human and not fully divine but had one single mixed nature. Kenosis - Jesus gave up some of His attributes when He became a man, contradicted by Colossians 2:9 For in Him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form. Orthodox Hypostatic Union - 1 Timothy 3:15 By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness; He who was revealed in the flesh, was indicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory. The premise they take away is that in the union of the two natures although they were separate the did not operate separately, didn't act as human sometimes and as God other times. Christ became fully human being a real man, but He was still fully God but decided not to have an independant use of His attributes as God without actually giving up those attributes. Example - Mark 9:21 and Mark 13:32 - here although He was fully God with the attributes of God He chose as fully human not to excersize His powers as fully God to know certain things. But we can't understand this by viewing the traditional concept of what humanity is because Christ was the ultimate human who experienced all of being human with pain, sorrow, loss, separation from God the Father, and death, but without sin. Although Christ cried out "why have you forsaken Me?" and was suffering the physcial sufferings of a human as fully human and He was still fully God, as the Son of God who is God. Having never been separated from God as being God or being human, He experienced a temporary separation from God as human and God in order to bear our sin as fully human and fully God. If He stopped being fully God on the cross then He does not have the power to save sins, if He stopped being man on the cross then He is not the perfect sacrfice for sins. He had to keep on being both, or we were still lost in our sins forever. See Philippians 2:6-8 about this as well as Colossians 2:9-12 these two verses together show what Christ did in coming as a man, but remaining as God. blessings abound, bowler |