God turned his face away in that moment when Jesus took all of the sin and the sorrow and the suffering and the sickness on himself; God cannot look upon sin and God turned his face away. Jesus would cry out "My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?"
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I have listened to this series for two Easters now. This last Easter I started the beginning of Holy Week moving through the stations, a couple or a few each day, and I will do the same next Easter. It is time not wasted for those wanting to experience Easter, in especially that somber way.
There were two thieves that were crucified with Jesus. One was the bad thief and one was the good thief. The good thief was remorseful and asked Jesus to remember him when He came into his kingdom.
"When Jesus took all the sin of humanity on his life the earth became dark for a period of three hours..." "...God cannot look upon sin and God turned his face away..." Jesus would cry out "My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?"
Did Jesus do something wrong? Did He go too far? Was He not supposed to die like that?
It would be a revelation for me, an epiphany.
I pondered, is this why God seems absent or unreachable to many of us in our time of need? Are many of us, too much like Jesus, carrying the weight of sin which belongs to someone else?
It would be an epiphany for me to think of God and the Sacrificer in this evolved way.
The theological words for this phenomenon, the act of cleansing the sinful, are justification, sanctification, repentance, redemption, atonement, and propitiation.
Reference:
Station 12 Jesus Promises His Kingdom to the Good Thief