(Mark 15:34) Did Jesus lose faith?

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“My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?” (Mark 15:34)

I’m not questioning Him, please dont get me wrong…but is this open for discussion?? Is that okay?

Because I was thinking about this, Jesus said this while he was going thru the crucification right? Well…does it seem like he’s questioning God? If he had complete faith, and already knew what was going to happen to him (that he would go to heaven) then why would he question God? Why would he consider himself forsaken??

“Father, Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit” (Luke 23:46)

And if Jesus and God are the same person, why does he call him father? Probably really easy questions…sorry…
 
He did not lose faith. What I have been taught is this:

Christ paid for our sins by taking our sins. God cannot be with anything that is unholy. Sin is unholy. So at that moment was when all of sin was on Christ and God looked away from his son. Thus the statement “Why have you forsaken me”.

This is a very watered down explanation and I can go get you a better one but this helped me understand more on this line.

One other thought as well, many times in our lives we feel that God has “left us” when in reality he has always been there. We just can’t “feel” him. Does that make sense? So, perhaps it was Christ feeling the weight of it all (I imagine it was an unreal amount of weight) and not feeling the closest to His Father at that moment, caused him to cry out.
 
He didn’t lose faith but He was fully human and would feel a moment-just a moment of despair. What he says and why he says it is theb interesting part.
Jesus is quoting Psalm 22 which starts out despairingly and ends in trust and hope. Folks who stood by and were in the know would understand it.Jesus is telling everyone it’s "not over " that tragedy will end in triumph.🙂
 
The way I have always seen Calvary is that Our Lord is being the ultimate High Priest to the end.
  • He forgives the Good Thief…Therefore, while under the worst of all suffering, He finds time to celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation.
  • He prays his Office (i.e. the Psalms…“My God: why have your forsaken me” and “Into your hands, I commend my spirit.”)
  • And of course, and most important of all, He offers sacrifice for our good and the good of all the church.
Also, when He prays the Psalm (My God: why have you forsaken Me), He is also, in a way, stating a truism. He is God. He has forsaken the prerogatives of a god–to call down His angels and nature to minister to Him and exact revenge on his enemies (remember what the bad thief tells him). Instead of acting like Zeus or any other mythical self-absorbed god of antiquity, God the Son (the Second Person of the Triune God) acts as a servant. Our Lord–in the ultimate act of self sacrificing love–forsakes Himself to atone for our selfish sins.
 
One last thing…I’ve always wondered about the emotions the Blessed Mother must have felt. She knew that her Son was the Christ. She knew the prophesies that He was going to suffer, die and rise in glory. She was told that by St. Gabriel at the Annunciation. She knows He will conquer death and rise on the last day. She had it on the best of authorities.

So she is watching her son going through all this suffering, watching Him die, but at the same time she knows it’s not permanent. She also knows that what is occurring on the cross is the greatest moment in history.

She watches Him suffer and die. She grieves and suffers like any other mother seeing her only son suffer a horrible death. Yet she knows He will rise. The Angel told her so. So she must be joyfully hopeful through all her sorrows.
 
Compare Psalm 21/22 (depending on the numbering in your Bible) with Matthew 27, and you’ll have your answer.

They are very similar.
 
PacoG said:
One last thing…I’ve always wondered about the emotions the Blessed Mother must have felt. She knew that her Son was the Christ. She knew the prophesies that He was going to suffer, die and rise in glory. She was told that by St. Gabriel at the Annunciation. She knows He will conquer death and rise on the last day. She had it on the best of authorities.

So she is watching her son going through all this suffering, watching Him die, but at the same time she knows it’s not permanent. She also knows that what is occurring on the cross is the greatest moment in history.

She watches Him suffer and die. She grieves and suffers like any other mother seeing her only son suffer a horrible death. Yet she knows He will rise. The Angel told her so. So she must be joyfully hopeful through all her sorrows.
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that breaks my heart…could you imagine! kinda like, when you take your kid to the doctor for a shot, its painful, theyre crying, but you know they gotta do it, so you just have to be strong and watch them cry out to you, wondering why you dont save them…

magnify that by like, a trillion…

i woulda been rolling around on the floor…flopping myself infront of him…lol…poor baby…that woman must have had STRENGTH man because…yeah thats too much…i’d probably die myself of heartbreak right on the spot…

but thanks Paco…you explained it very well…i need to join a bible study group of some sort…
 
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