"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"?

This question has generated lots of very good answers.

This statement was made just as the Father had to turn His back on His only Son, Who had become sin in our place.

The Father cannot look at sin or allow sin into His presence.

So for the first time since Eternity Past, Jesus longed for and did not have the fellowship with His Father. At that time Jesus was crying out in human agony.

Even then Jesus quoted from Psalms 22.

Also note that Jesus is God and wasn't created, Jesus is the Creator God.

See John 1:1-4 and Col 1:15-17

Jesus' crucifixion is better understood when we think beyond the physical torture he suffered. Many people have pointed out that others have been crucified also - that's true. We need to imagine the extreme psychic - or spiritual - agony that Jesus suffered on behalf of the world. God put the sins of the whole world onto Jesus' shoulders - the sins of every person that lived then, now and in the future. We cannot even grasp that MUCH sin, let alone the reality of each sin. I'm sure he did feel forsaken but he knew it was for a season, and he knew that joy would follow.

Jesus is infallible; Jesus is divine.

Banishment from the presence of God is the just punishment for sin (2 Thessalonians 1:9). Jesus, the perfect Christ, suffered the cross in order to pay the price for our sins. The rejection of God was a legitimate part of the process.

A little more study would reveal that Jesus was describing His circumstances through quoting scripture (Psalm 22:1).

"From the sixth hour on a darkness fell over all the land, until the ninth hour. About the ninth hour Jesus called out with a loud voice, saying: 'E′li, E′li, la′ma sa·bach·tha′ni?' that is, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' ... Again Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and yielded up [his] spirit."

--Matthew 27:45,46,50

Jesus was quoting:

"My God, my God, why have you left me?

[Why are you] far from saving me? ..." --Psalm 22:1

Breathing his last breath, Jesus drew on Psalm chapter 31 as he said:

“'Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit.' When he had said this, he expired.” --Luke 23:46

Compare that to Psalm 31:5

"Into your hand I entrust my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Jehovah the God of truth."

I don't think he got to finish everything he intended to say, but, that he did 'get his point across'!

Quoting Scripture penned by king David when he was 'in sore straits' is not blasphemous.

After all, Christ himself was near death at the time, & a very excruciating death, at that!

Christ was then a man, aperfect man, but a man nonetheless, with human feelings.

He cried at the death of his friend Lazarus, even though he knew that he would resurrect him shortly! Christ had REAL, HUMAN, FEELINGS.

"Reliving Jesus' Last Days on Earth"

- Nisan 9 through 14, After Sundown

http://watchtower.org/e/19980315/article_01.htm

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Hello,

Oh yes, infallible and divine. But also human. 100 percent divine, and 100 percent human. Not just that, God did abandon him. He wasn't just talking. When the weight of the world's sins was applied to his account, so to speak, he became the scapegoat for all mankind. God the Father, and God the Holy Spirit, abandoned God the Son to his fate, which he accepted freely and in total obedience to the will of his Father. The Bible teaches this. The suffering wasn't just physical, but psychical (mental, emotional, spiritual) as well. It had to be because sin is a physical and spiritual problem. We get old and die because of sin, and we suffer during our lives because of sin. Jesus bore this suffering that was rightfully ours as sinners. He never sinned, and didn't deserve to die. He deserved to reign as king of the whole world. But he said that his kingdom was not of this earth.

Jesus' flesh got in the way. I am sure it felt like he was on that cross forever and it may have seemed to him that his father did forsake him, but we all know he did not. If Jesus was a blasphemer that would make him a sinner, now wouldnt it. We all know that he was not a sinner and did not sin not even one time. Jesus heavily cried before he was crucified, he even asked the Father to remove the bitter cup, but only if it was His will. Why don't you read your bible and pray for understanding. Maybe the father will grant it to you, instead of trying to make my saviour and Lord out to be a sinner.

Consider that Jesus knew His purpose was accomplished and was in physical agony. It could be He was calling out to the Father to let Him die so He could be resurrected and move forward with the Trinity's plan for mankind. It's true that in my darkest hours, I cry to God similarly. Pain is so hard to endure. I believe that if we had tried to stop this terrible scene from taking place, Jesus would have told us to get behind Him (satan) just like He told Peter when Peter tried to reject what Christ was sharing about His upcoming sacrifice. People then were clueless as to what Jesus was doing on the cross for us all. The disciples were expecting Him to deliver them physically from Roman oppression, and the crowd really didn't know who He was. I would have stood by Him just like John and His mother Mary did. There would not have been much else that I could do. With all those soldiers there, I would be literally powerless.

That statement was spoken at the exact moment when the Father had to turn away from the Son due to the Son taking upon Himself the sins of all humanity, and God cannot have anything sinful

You obviously do not understand Judaism or Christianity.

This quotation is a line from psalm 22, still used at funerals.

This would be a very human response to death.

This was when Jesus took on the sins of humanity.

My thoughts are Jesus said this because the will of the Father was now complete. =)

Jesus is God and the only way into heaven.

John 14:6

"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."

Everyone has the chance to get saved and everyone needs saved so get saved now. =)

Romans 10:13

"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Please pray a sincere prayer with all of your heart admitting to Jesus you are a sinner. Have full faith that His blood pays off all of your sins and accept His gift of everlasting life. I pray that God blesses you with peace. Amen.