The answer to the question
August 13, 2009
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Ps. 22:1, Matt. 27:46). We must hear Jesus’ question, and discern the answer, in the light of the whole of the rest of the psalm, as undoubtedly Jesus did. But it still remains a question that points us to the heart of the mystery of the atonement itself. To me it is a profoundly moving thought that the word that introduces our most tormenting questions - “Why…?” - was uttered by Jesus on the very cross that was God’s answer to the question that the whole creations poses.
- Dr. Christopher Wright, The God I Don’t Understand, p. 21
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