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I believe God the Father, was pleased, by Jesus the Son becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross Phil 2:8 and that God forsaking him, when he laid the iniquity of all upon him and the Son crying out, My God My God why has thou forsaken me, is part of the suffering through which Son learned obedience Heb 5:7,8.

 

Interestingly enough having read over a dozen commentaries on this issue, not one, NONE support the OP and his ongoing false theory. He has stated his belief isn't that new without substantial evidence and remains purely subjective. I still contend his OP is mocking others, and it is certainly mocking others, telling them they preach fables, guilty of pulpit crimes, that these do not get their beliefs from the Scriptures. That's the epitome of arrogance and is in fact his accusations seen clearly in this thread. That's humble, no?

jonc doulos is doing none other than mitigation of the Cross. No wrath of God suffered and not forsaken of God as Scriptures clearly teach. I'm out of here, this whole thing is at the least heterodox.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. 10Reject a factious man after a first and second warning, 11knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.

 

One, yet different in that the Father was, Spirit the God, and desires those worshiping him, of John 4:23,24 and the Son was the word made flesh and dwelt among us of John 1:14

Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 1 John 4:2

 

I suppose i didn't word my statement correctly. Christ didn't "Separate" from God in the sense they were out of fellowship, but He physically/Spiritually left His Glory and Stepped into Humanity...But i digress....as i type these words and toss around hypotheticals I don't see this being profitable towards my relationship with Christ. I pray the coming responses, if they continue, will be edifying to the saints and glorifying to our Lord Jesus.

 

Hebrews 13
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

What is the importance of the writer denoting "Outside the Camp?" "Outside the Gate?" Was/How was the Scapegoat "Forsaken?"

How did Christ taste death for all men, even though some have already tasted death?

Hebrews 2
9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.


just some thoughts....

 

So by "tasting death" or bearing within Himself the Sin of Mankind...the bitter fruit of rebellion...we see Christ conquered it...

1 Corinthans 15
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law..

57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

That begs the question...How did Christ bear the reality of Sin? Broken Fellowship with God?

Or maybe because He did bear the Sin and STILL Remained in Fellowship with God that is why There is True Victory?

 

So did Christ deserve to die? No. Did He willingly die? Yes. So God's Justice would be Satisfied? Yes. Sin was atoned for. Was Christ Cast off? Forsaken?

Look at the next several words in Psalm 22:1...Why are You so Far(as in time or distance) from Helping( delivering, saving, giving victory) me????

Christ is asking (seemingly), "God why are you letting them do this to me, why aren't you coming in and rescuing me from this?????"

and for a moment God abandons Him, right?

Psalm 16
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

But He rose victoriously from the Grave and is Brought back to life...

While continuing in Fellowship with God all the while?

And Psalm 22 goes on to possibly clear things up...

24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

 

Right...I was just implying the Scapegoat, too as they both went outside the camp....

Leviticus 16
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

...And Christ did as such, Left the Holy Place and was Crucified outside the City

 

Good Thoughts.

It was definitely "Outside of what the Pharisees have done with the Law." Jerusalem and the Temple became their Idol. Salvation was not to be found in Jerusalem, Salvation was not to be found at the Temple. Salvation was to be found in the One and Only Spotless Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. And one must go further than rituals or self righteousness to find it...they must Go to Where Jesus Is...Outside the Camp....

 

You are being so very humble quoting Titus 3.

Seems to me that the OP placed a question to the BB that is well worthy of discussion.

Show from Scripture your argument has foundation.

Prove from Scripture that there was some level of wrath that God had to dump on the Son so it might be extinguished.

Let's try you out on ONE passage from Hebrews 9:

11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; 12 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
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Are you actually going to contend that Christ was blemished by the wrath of God particularly in the light that Christ states that after the resurrection, He had yet to ascend to the Father? (John 20)

You need to support your offense toward others by Scriptures.

Perhaps you can find that single Scripture that states that God poured out some measure of wrath upon His Son as satisfactory payment for sin.

I haven't found one, and frankly am too tired to look for one.

So PROVE by Scriptures you view.

For in them is the truth.

 

No apologies for my usage of Titus 3 are forthcoming.

We have the OP here stating that those (whose views differ from his) are believing myths, preaching lies or something from the pulpit, and those who don't get their teachings from the Scriptures. That right there is being factious as Titus describes. The slander was arrogant, accusatory, condescending and divisive.

I stand in good company with my views with Spurgeon, Calvin, Gill, Coke, Trapp and many others including Christ; Matthew 27:46. Simply because we see God as 'inseparable' does not necessitate that the God who can did die, suffer wrath and divine desertion as noted by Gill. Showing others to believe the inseparability of God does not prove Mt. 27:46 to not show Christ forsaken of the Father.

Interestingly enough the OP claims (arrogantly yet again) not using commentators, however, he assuredly wants others to hear, guess who? HIM and what he has to say.

Now, I happen to believe what I believe, and I took the OP on for his statements which were divisive. Don't like my viewpoint? Good! But to call others those names and imply all of that is to be a factious person.

 

Well I had to Google, hypostatic union. That said let me ask and then you tell me.

And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. John 17:5 Here we have a prayer from Jesus to the Father asking to be glorified, 1 Peter 21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
Here we have a statement concerning God raising and giving glory to the Christ. Jesus I assume.

I ask, do you believe that the Father gave the Son, Jesus glory of which he did not have from his birth of the virgin until his death and resurrection.

Hebrews 5 states Christ did not glorify himself to be made high priest but he that said, Thou art my Son this day have I begotten you, is the One who glorified him to be made high priest.

Tell me about, hypostatic union, from his being born of woman until his death. As I said I had to Google.

Could, Spirit the God, the Father, the One, desiring to be worshiped in spirit and truth die?

Could the Word made flesh die? Is the Word made flesh, the Son born of woman, born under the law?

Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. Romans 6:9

Can he die anymore? Has he been glorified? Did the Father glorify the Son?