Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: lionti@ecs.umass.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Checking your mind at the door Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 07:15:00 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu jag@cello.mc.duke.edu (John Graves) writes: [bulk of post cut, I prefer not to comment on this as I find that I have quickly grown tired of all the "in-fighting" in this group] > Jesus experienced knowing God the father. > Yet even he on the cross asked why God had forsaken him. I feel I must clear up something here, however, as this was something which bothered me also, until I followed up the reference. When Jesus on the cross says "My God, my God, Why have you forsaken me?" it is a reference to a Psalm of David (22 I believe) which starts out this way (bleakly) but moves to one of acceptance of God's will. Any NIV Bible should point to the reference, and I _STRONGLY_ suggest that anyone who has had problems with this passage read this Psalm. Until I went and read this Plasm, I found this passage very upsetting, but now I feel I understand it better. Yours in hope, Eric C. McClure lionti@umaecs.bitnet Standard Dis