3 Comments

1. michelle hines says:

   April 2, 2010 at 9:44 am

   I would like to know what did Jesus mean when he made that statment.
2. rk1361 says:

   April 3, 2010 at 10:55 am

   I have heard 2 different approaches to this question. The first states that at that moment Jeaus was so totally consumed by the weight of our sins He absorbed ,that God couldn’t look upon Him and turned His head.Therefore Jesus was actually alone at that moment.
   The other approach I just heard last night was that Jesus Himself being so weighted down by our sins He had just taken on, couldn’t see the Father at that moment and felt humanly separated from God just as as we sometimes feel. This states that God never turns His head on us, but that sometimes we feel that He has.
   Both are very good but I myself still have a few concerns. On the first interpretation I have to ask, “Does God ever turn away from anyone?”
   On one hand I say,no but I also beleive that hell is the separation from God. Jesus, we are told desended into hell before He rose. Therefore, was He totally separated from God until His ressurection???
3. remvee says:

   June 9, 2010 at 8:39 pm

   Ive heard this is an actual honest cry to God for help, and a sense of loss from the father that leaves Jesus terrified, and in some ways Jesus’ cry isnt answered instead it isnt until he passes that God’s reponse is heard… The ressurection becomes that response…
   The Psalm that Jesus uses is Psalm 22 and the Psalm itself is a cry to God for not answering him, his torment is in the silence of God but also the immediate danger he is facing, the Psalter is terrified and needs assurance from God, it isnt until he loses all hope that God answers, and his praise is expressed for all of humanity…