Exactly Adam, I believe that
Jesus FELT abandoned and forsaken, that would of course be a normal FEELING when being executed.
Not exact matches
It is sin that makes us
feel separated from God, and this is the
feeling Jesus expressed on the cross, and is one reason
Jesus went to the cross — to take our sin and bear it away into death so that we can see that God has not left us, has not
abandoned us, and has not forsaken us, but has fully entered into our pain, our suffering, and even into our sin, so that He might show us how much He loves and cares for us.
When we
feel that God is ignoring us, or has
abandoned us,
Jesus knows what we
feel, and He cries out to God on our behalf, «Why have You forsaken Me?»
In life's abysmal darkness, when
Jesus was faced with dying on the cross and
feeling abandoned by His Father, His hope was His great love for us.