How could God forsake Himself?
If Jesus and God are one and the same, and Christ is God in the flesh…., then explain why Jesus, while upon the cross even bleeding to death, would cry out: “My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?” How could God forsake himself? You ask an excellent question when you ask how God could forsake Himself upon the cross. In answering this question, you must also remember that God is one God and yet three Persons (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). The Bible says: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD….” (Deuteronomy 6:4); and also, “I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the LORD God, and his Spirit, hath sent me. This saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go” (Is
