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The fourth of the seven last words of Jesus on the cross is a tricky one. I think that anyone asked to consider and speak on it would go first to times when they have felt the same -- forsaken.
Part of the great power of this statement from the cross for me, though, is that though he felt forsaken, and indeed perhaps even was forsaken for a time (though was he really?) he was not ultimately.
Some theologians say he was forsaken by God the Father completely on the cross. They say that the sins of humanity that he took onto himself on the cross separated him from God the Father. Perhaps.
I do believe that the sins of humanity have somehow been done away with by God through the opening of himself to humanity and claiming of humanity through Christ, and that the cross may show that even the worst we can do will not dissuade God.
But I wonder, though, why Jesus would ask "Why?" "Why have you forsaken me?" Did he not know? Or perhaps in his humanity he was still too self-limited to know that he was not forsaken, nor would he be. That this affliction would pass, that God would redeem...
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