The Bible In Paintings, #182: PSALM 22 - "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"

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CONSIDERATION

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[Fawn]

So why did God forsake Jesus?

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Crucifixion

by Salvador Dali

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I don't know that the Bible ever specifically answers your question, which leaves us to reason our way to the answer. Others may wish to comment as well, but here is what I understand to be the consensus view.

Jesus, fully God and fully man, had always been closely intimate with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. But Jesus went voluntarily onto that cross precisely to take our sins onto Himself. In doing so, He suffered the same alienation, forsaking, from God that we do when we sin, and He felt it excruciatingly and lamented it audibly.

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A God's-eye view. Good job, Salvador! I hadn't seen that before--thanks for adding it, Mary-Lou.

I must say, I find the prospect of interacting with the tens of thousands of crucifixion images to be daunting. But I think Dali's, by virtue of its unique perspective, just qualified. And when that time comes, if I forget to include it, I trust you will.

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Dali did a lot of Crucifixion Paintings, but I think that one is the most compelling.

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Apparently, then, ol’ Sal was a believer, which I’m glad to learn.

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You think Jesus went voluntarily? I didn’t realize he had a choice.... People get mad at me, but I believe we have somewhat of a cruel God....not Jesus...jus God. He always so much pain, suffering, cruelty....for innocents. Just always bothered me..

[etabeta]

The most dramatic painting on the Crucifixion is this by Salvador Dali, in my opinion. As if seen from the eye of God. One of the most poignant Psalm, in his extreme suffering Jesus has a very human experience, this sense of abandonment, of being forsaken. It is the cry of humanity, of the suffering all experience in “the dark night of our soul”.

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You think Jesus went voluntarily? I didn’t realize he had a choice

In John 12:27, Jesus Himself claimed that He went to the cross voluntarily:

"Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour."

As for your allegation that God (which includes Jesus) is cruel, another view is that He is just. You argue against that by claiming He abuses "innocents," but none of us is innocent, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23

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If both of you agree, then I’m in!

[Boogieman]

“He always so much pain, suffering, cruelty....for innocents.”

From a Christian perspective, there are no innocents. We are a race of sinners, and there can be no sin without suffering, or the world would not be just.

[Norski]

2 Corinthians 5:21

“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”

Will look up more verses, have been taught that sin cannot be in the presence of God.

Also, that this forsaking lasted about 3 hours total. Checking Matthew 27.

[Norski]

back later, sorry

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this forsaking lasted about 3 hours total

You argue for a temporary and brief forsaking, but there is a counterargument for a kind of permanent abandonment.

How can Jesus, by a "mere" six hours of excruciation followed by physical death, adequately atone for my sins and yours, to stand in for our eternity in hell that we justly deserve? The answer may be, in some tens of billions of extra dimensions that God has complete freedom to create, that Jesus voluntarily is still on that cross for all eternity--indeed, a separate "version" of Him for each one of us.

That Jesus would volunteer to suffer and die for us immediately debunks any thought that God is in any sense anything less than love, as the Bible claims. Yet if the scenario I suggest is true, one instantly understands why all the saints in heaven praise Him continually.

[Maudeen]

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What a treasure!!!! I am going to share!

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Glad you like it, Pat.

I was hearing numerous people lamenting, "I'm just finding this series and I've missed SO MANY episodes!" I felt embarrassed in directing them to FR's Search function, which just isn't designed to facilitate a series with this many installments, clicking through page after page.

I finally realized--much too late--that the Spirit was trying to get my attention and do something about it. Now, they're all visible at one glance.

[Maudeen]

I was able to cut and paste into a word document so I could go to whatever without being on FR. I’m glad you listened to the Holy Spirit’s guidance.