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Read this thread and you will see bafflement, guesses, and conjecture. You won't read teaching from the Protestant perspective that is authoritative and instructive for all.

This isn't meant to be a snark but instructive as to why the Church is here and how She has stood the test of time.

Sorry, that is a snark, and most of the answers were consistent. Some of the difference come from different understandings of the Apostles' Creed. Plus, there are multiple layers to what God is trying to point out with Psalm 22. Some of the differences in response are due to people pointing out the different layers.

I wonder if I ask a random group of Catholics the same question if I would get the exact same answer. Yes, I know there is the party line, but not everyone knows it.

What is consistent with all of the response is the lack of this sacrifice being performed over and over in a Mass. Just as "My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?" points us to Psalm 22 and the Suffering Savior, so do the words, "This is My body" points us back to the cross. Both are symbols represent something larger.

Some of the differences in response are due to people pointing out the different layers.

Really?

"Since God is sinless and can not tolerate sin, at that moment, God had to remove his presence from Jesus." - taxcontrol, post #8.

"In the spiritual realm God turned his head from his son as he bore the sins of humanity." - winodog, post #10.

"God turned His back when Jesus was on the cross because He could not look upon sin, even-or perhaps especially-in His own Son. Just as Jesus loudly lamented, God the Father had indeed forsaken Him." - .45 Long Colt, post #16.

"Except that Jesus IS God." - AppyPappy, post #21.

"It’s a good question, the answer to which we may never know." - TheZMan, post #24.

"At that moment. God turned His Face from Christ, because Christ became SIN (our sin from Eve’s tempation to the last sin ever committed by the last born human still in the future). He cannot look upon sin, so Christ being the 2nd of the Trinity could feel this separation from His Father. That pain must have been even more unbearable than the physical torment of crucifixion." - Roman_War_Criminal, post #29.

"To claim to understand the full impact or meaning of that statement would be akin to claiming full understanding of the hypostatic union." - CynicalBear, post #35.

Sorry, that is a snark, and most of the answers were consistent.

Many were consistent with each other but many were not. And almost all Protestants took the approach that God saw sin on the Cross, not an obedient Son. What do you think?

I wonder if I ask a random group of Catholics the same question if I would get the exact same answer.

Read back through the thread and I think you can pick out the Catholics.