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2. Many think that Jesus' words were a reference to Psalm 22, a text he would have been familiar with. Pure speculation: perhaps it was at this moment that he took on the world's sins and suddenly felt the distance that sin creates between man and God. He would have never felt the consequences of sin before this.
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This is a quote that has caused a lot of problems throughout the history of christianity. I think the really interesting perspective is the idea that jesus was a man who's body was inhabited by the Word of God (Christ), sort of invasion of the bodysnachers style. This quote represents the moment the Word leaves him and goes back up to heaven, leaving the man jesus to take the Roman's torture's. It was advanced by an early christian group (can't remember their name right now) who could stand to think of the son of God experienceing the pain and humiliation of crucifiction.