There is no need to be so touchy about the truth.
I disagree. God is the truth and we should all be sensitive about him.
He became the cursed thing for our sake. The lamb caught in the thicket. The snake lifted up.
Yes, men cursing God, not God cursing his Son. The sacrifice for repentance, not replacement. The Son being viewed as the snake by men, not by his Father. See how the scriptures have been sistorted.
The prophecy isn't about God forsaking his son. No one made that claim.
But Jesus did experience abandonment and he cried out in distress.
God having forsaken his Son, regardless of how short a time, is widely taught in Christian circles and to abandon someone is to forsake him.
The Psalm does detail how the man who became the sacrifice experienced his separation from God. He pointed us to that psalm from the cross.
I told you that our Lord quoted that Psalm because the religious leaders, the "experts" the "teachers" of scripture who were mocking him knew that God doesn't forsake a righteous man in times of trouble. The scribes are the ones who viewed Jesus as separated or abandoned by God.
None of us could understand fully the torment he endured in his spirit.
Actually Lucy,
As we grow in the knowledge of Christ, we should understand fully his torment,
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death Phil.3:10
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Cor 5:21
And Jesus was viewed as a sinner, but not by his Father,
we know that this man is a sinner. Jn.9:24
They replied, If this man were not a criminal, we would not have handed him over to you. Jn.18:30
And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors. Mk.15:28
It is "to love and to be loved."
