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What is your interpretation & opinion of this question " ELI, ELI, lama sabachthani?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    these are the words that Jesus uttered when he was dying on the stake, which mean, god, god why you had forsaken me. then his breath of life extinguish and i believed god did it to shorten his hours of suffering once those prosecuters of him had proven that he's the son of god and the Messiah, so god perform his rescue to his son to show to the world that his son's sacrifice in exchange for many has been approved by the father.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The scripture in question is in Matthew 27:

    "Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, 'My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?' " (Matthew 27:45-46, NKJV throughout)

    Source(s): internet
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    It's a quote of a quote. Much of the canonical gospels quote the prophets and psalms. They don't necessarily 'mean' something.

    Many protestant religions that obsess over Jesus' death, rather than his life, love this reference. They say all sorts of things like that Jesus had so many sins that God could not even look at him, even though he is God, and he was sin-less... So the sinless Jesus, who is God, was so full of sin, he couldn't look at himself, and therefore felt abandoned...

    It's like when Christians argue if Adam had a navel.

    I agree with Thomas Jefferson. We should focus on the moral teachings of Jesus. How he taught us to live and treat others. Maybe if we could master that, we would stop arguing over the little details that don't matter...

    Source(s): Novum Testamentum Graeca
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