Or listen to RC Sproul, in a 2011 interview with his disgraced son, explain that it was hell on the cross for Christ:
I hereby dub thee, Jerome the Dirt Monger.
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Or listen to RC Sproul, in a 2011 interview with his disgraced son, explain that it was hell on the cross for Christ:
The Father did not abandon (separate) from the Son when He was on the cross. Jesus was simply quoting the beginning of Psalm 22.
Just a guess (not to answer for BaptistBeleiver), but perhaps because that was the passage he was fulfilling, that God would not abandon his Righteous One?Why would he "simply quote" that at that time?
Just a guess (not to answer for BaptistBeleiver), but perhaps because that was the passage he was fulfilling, that God would not abandon his Righteous One?
In Psalm 22 the Father had not left his Righteous One. He was forsaken to die, not abandoned. I am saying that Jesus was not taking out one verse and making it deny passages where God says over and over and over again that he will not forsake or abandon his Righteous One. I am saying that if Jesus was truly separated from God, that if Jesus experienced that spiritual "deadness" that is a spiritual separation, that we have absolutely no hope in Christ because His hope in the faithfulness of the Father was misplaced. And I am saying that this is impossible and it is for the simple fact that the Father did not abandon his Son that we can have faith in a faithful, immutable, and holy God.Wait, huh? So Jesus simply quoted a passage suggesting the Father had left him, even though it was not true and because...what what?
None of that makes sense.
Sorry. I misunderstood you. I was watching Mr. Deeds (Gary Cooper, not Adam Sandler) and may have jumped the gun. My bad.What I am saying is that it is an odd statement that Jesus was simply quoting scripture. That makes no sense.
I am saying that if Jesus was truly separated from God, that if Jesus experienced that spiritual "deadness" that is a spiritual separation, that we have absolutely no hope in Christ because His hope in the faithfulness of the Father was misplaced.
The problem that I have with this interpretation, is that Hades (paradise) becomes like some type of prison in referring to the souls OT saints as "captives".
Sproul is agreeing with Calvin here.
It's worse than that. For the Son to be separated from the Father challenges the doctrine of the Trinity. God cannot be separated from himself; if so, the essential nature of the Godhead would be mutable.
You have just negated every assertion you've made.Pay no attention to those who simply makeup arguments.

Yes, it's true, because the death from which Christ came to save us is not physical death. It's the Second Death, and that is the death He tasted for every man.No. He had to die. That's the reason He entered the world. He didn't die to prove something.
In another place, He said those who believe on Him will never die. Is that true?
I think that what has happened is that men have created a framework to understand aspects of the Cross, but then they have started using that framework as if it were Scripture itself. Substitution no longer existed as an aspect of the Cross understood within a allegorical context (i.e., as if God were a human judge going through an accounting process for debts owed him), but that context became the Cross itself. Jesus therefore had to be separated from God because that is the spiritual death that the lost will ultimately face. The work of the Cross is therefore bound within the context, or allegory, that was used to describe one aspect of the Cross. And what some see instead of the whole work of God is the allegory upon which their understanding rests.Sproul is agreeing with Calvin here.
It's worse than that. For the Son to be separated from the Father challenges the doctrine of the Trinity. God cannot be separated from himself; if so, the essential nature of the Godhead would be mutable.
Yet another snide remark, false and malicious. Every argument I make is directly supported by scripture, where OTOH, you make assertions as above without support.You have just negated every assertion you've made.![]()
Isn't this a teaching commonly taught in Word of Faith churches? Is this an acceptable teaching within orthodoxy or is this a heresy?
The problem that I have with this interpretation, is that Hades (paradise) becomes like some type of prison in referring to the souls OT saints as "captives".