Monsignor Pope Ping!
Even though on the cross Jesus cried, “My God, My God why have you forsaken me?” (Ps 22:1), we must recall that this psalm is one of hope, not despair. Among its laments come verses of confidence and trust:
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I always had a question about this one until Carl Gallups explained that Jesus was using this a reference to Psalm 22 which includes a detailed picture of the Crucifixion. Jesus was saying: “Psalm 22 is about me!”
Carl speculated that the Centurion, who recognized Jesus’ divinity, did so because he knew Psalm 22 and recognized that he had just seen parts of it enacted before his eyes. Whether or not the Centurion recognized it, we can and take comfort in the fact that Elohim is totally in charge and has declared the end from the beginning.
David, and Joseph. A whole lot of layers are missed with Father being capitalized. At age 12, for example, Jesus (when discovered in the Temple), said he was about his father's business.
David: all Temple all the time. It was in his heart and soul and mind and spirit to build the Temple. David passed all the blueprints and event planning and organizational details and plans down to Solomon. That 12 YO was a total buff, just like his father David. Where else would be have been, asking so many questions and having so much knowledge himself.
When people cried out for healing, they recognized David in David's son, in his attribute of mercy. So many times they cried out, "Son of *David*, have mercy on us." Naturally.
Then there was Joseph, a *just* man (a Tzaddik), who had dreams, took his family down to Egypt and *brought them back up*. On and on and on.
Joseph ha-Tzaddik and David ha-Melek. It'll take the Jews to restore and rectify the proper meaning of the NT narrative. As it stands now, the Messiah's visage is so marred that he doesn't even look like a man.
It was always all about the Father.
Christianity violates the Torah Law prohibition of creating a new religion. G-d does not have a body or any form. He is not a dead man on a cross.