God Turning His Back?

I'm not sure this is what you are looking for but it is as close as I can find:

(Mat 27:46) And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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(Mar 15:34) And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Both of these verses reference back to Psalms 27:

(Psa 27:9) Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

I hope this helps.

Peace and prayers

Jeff

 

It doesn't--unless you believe there was a fracture in the Holy Trinity.

 

It is said that when the darkness fell for 3 hours as Christ hung on the cross that was the sign that God turned His back on Him. Right after Christ said my God My God why hast thou foresaken Me. We know God the Father and Spirit forsook Him when our sin s were placed on the Son as Sacrifice. That is why people say the Fatehr and Spirit turned their back on Him because they couldn't lokk upon sin.

 

It's in the same passage as Wednesday night meetings, altar calls, & culottes.

 

44The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

47Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

48And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.

49The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.

50Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

 

If God was going to accept Christ’s sacrifice—bearing all of mankind’s sins—then God had to turn His back on Him. Thus, He neglected the One who took upon Himself our sins—Jesus Christ.

King David cried out, in times of trouble, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Psalm 22:1) David spoke these words hundreds of years before Christ’s crucifixion. This scripture prophetically applied to Christ, and shows the anguish that He felt when God forsook Him.

 

Did God despise, or think of the Son as filthy (“abhor”) His suffering for our sins? Did He “have to” shrink from the site, hide His face, and could not bear to hear the cries, while turning away from sin, as it is so often traditionally preached?

Before I go there let me discuss a similar example, when Jesus said, “if it be possible, take this cup from me” it shows that He knew what was coming and had fear of it in the human form; He was then comforted. Don’t really think it could be taken that He didn’t want to fulfill the atonement which was set before the foundation.

In that ninth hour Jesus said:

“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Mat 27:46)

SO when Jesus drew our attention to the Psalm saying:

“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?” (Psa 22:1)

Was the Trinitarian Nature of God separated???


Why was Jesus even being allowed to die on the cross? We now know, and I believe this was the point of this saying; Jesus was calling our attention to the truth of who He was, by referring to the scriptural Psalm. This saying was Jesus quoting prophesied scripture, that He very well knew, and I believe it was because He was always teaching who He was, and continued to do this even from the cross in fulfilling the words written about 600 years before.

And what truth is concluded in that Psalm about whether or not God heard Him:

(Psa 22:24) For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

No, I don’t think the Father ever turned His back on the Son.

 

Christ was/is our atonement. As such He took the wrath of God which we deserve for our sin upon Himself.

Humanly speaking, He had never experienced the anger of God His Father until that time of darkness.

On the cross, He voiced His anguish at having been made the bearer and propitiator of our sins.

John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.​

Perhaps "turning His back on His Son" is a poor phrase to use for defining what He endured as our atonement for sin.​

Whatever it involved it caused Him to sweat blood in anticipation and brought Him to the door of death.​

Matthew 26
37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.​

Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.​

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.​

But I don't know whatever other words to use. Perhaps He was expressing the sensibilty of His soul.

The proof that His Father heard Him was His resurrection from the dead and the subsequent Great Commission.

HankD