"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?"
Everyone who has never gone through depression thinks of it in terms of sadness. It's not only that. Actually, there's also a severe mental pain that feels worse than any other signal sent up to the brain from somewhere else in your body. How could you not only "get around" the problem, instead get to the heart of the matter? It would be great if you could cut your head off and grow a healthy new one in place, but unfortunately that's not possible. So there must be some other Way. What if there is some other kind of Regeneration, where you discard your mind and receive a Mind to build a new one? Your brain would still be sick, but now you'd have access to the Source of Health.
You'll always hear people who at least try to interpret the Scriptures more theologically saying that God was leaving Jesus really alone at that moment. I only know that with the sadness and pain comes also a terrible feeling of loneliness. Does that mean the Connection is broken? No. Think of it as a pipe: only because the water is not coming out of the faucet, it doesn't mean that the pipe is broken somewhere between the company and your house. So maybe what Jesus was actually feeling and saying was why had God interrupted the Water supply at the Source. Daniel's companions cast into the burning furnace and leaving it unharmed is a classic example of a situation where it keeps flowing. It's not an easy task to interpret this, because He knew He would die, nevertheless also prayed asking to be saved if possible. Was He envisioning different universes, something like, "If Elise stays with Adrian, I will live; if she stays with David, I will die"?
He was subject to the Father, therefore He relied on Him to save others and Himself. I agree that there's not one who can't be blamed for what happened to Him; He was the only One born a friend and we all were a part of this world of fools at some point. The theory is that Jesus was offering Himself as a substitute, so the Connection was taken away from Him to be given to sinners who would believe. But when He said, "Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven", wasn't He implying that the Connection exists from the moment one believes? What Peter says afterwards didn't come from the Father, therefore he is rebuked for that. That is, once you get the Mind, you must keep working to get Her or else you'll find your old mind speaking again.
Peter was ready to kill, but not die for the Truth. And it's worth noting that Jesus was not exactly teaching a prophetical lesson to make him a pacifist, instead He was telling him to rely on God only. Later, when he finds himself more in tune with the Source, he kills two people with the Sword coming out of his mouth. The disturbances in nature from the sixth to ninth hour and following Jesus' death are a revelation of the damage the "human" being does to his own home when he ignores, despises and destroys the Temple. That usually doesn't scare the egocentric, until the disturbance is in that closest part of nature to himself: his own body. Because when it's about to gravely fail and cease working properly, how is he going to keep searching for the "life" he doesn't want to lose, miss?
What do you think? Did God really forsake Jesus or was it only how he felt?
I think He didn't, but I don't have a conclusion.
