Ronald, I see it very differently. You believe Jesus was made sin and that the Father punished Him as our sin. But was Jesus actually sin? And did the Father really abandon Him?
When Jesus cried, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” He was quoting Psalm 22:1: “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” We have to remember that Jesus often used the Scriptures this way. He knew the Psalms and used them to point people to what was being fulfilled before their eyes.
Jesus was saying....My God My God why have you ENTANGLED Me. Jesus was combining 2 verses....from Ps 22 an Gen 22. The genius of God is that He keeps going deeper into the meaning of prophecy.
In Gen 22 we see a ram that God Himself provided caught in a thicket. The Hebrew word for thicket in the text is "sevach" or..basvach as in..."in the thicket". The VERB that describes being entangled like the ram in the thicket is "sabach". This meaning still holds true in Israel today.
So then when Jesus says sabachtani...He is saying that HE is the ram caught in the thicket as God's sacrifice.
That's why Jesus wore a crown of thorns. It represents Him caught in the thicket.
And I agree with you that God did not condemn Jesus as a sinner not even in a pretend way. The bible says...God was IN CHRIST reconciling the world to Himself. He was made to be sinful by evil men....not God
Blessings from Montreal <><
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