In the New Testament death is sometimes represented as the penalty for
sin, or it becomes the symbol for
separation from God, and thus Christ's victory
over sin is also the victory
over death.
It is the cry of God fully entering into our broken condition and fully experiencing the sense of
separation from God that
sin causes, and crying out in anguish and despair
over this sense of loss, «My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?»