Nov 30 2009

The Silence of God

Category: Devotional — Polycarp @ 8:59 am

“My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” (Mar 15:34 NLT)


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4 Responses to “The Silence of God”

  1. Sam says:
    November 30th, 2009 12:27 pm

    Nice post

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  2. Christian Salafia says:
    November 30th, 2009 1:53 pm

    Joel,

    Just to confuse this a little bit, I’ve been reading one of Lamsa’s books on Aramaic idioms used in scripture and…..

    …in one of the additional chapters, he puts forth the idea that “Why have you forsaken/abandoned me” is incorrect. He says it’s more accurately translated as “for this I was kept”, meaning “this is my destiny, I was born for this”.

    He makes 2 claims to back up this assertion:
    1) If he meant “forsaken”, he would have used the word “nashatani” which means “forsaken me” instead of “shabacktani” which means “kept me”.

    2) Those from Galilee who followed Jesus would never have believed that Jesus said God had forsaken him because he taught them the whole world would forsake them, but their Father would be with them.

    Interesting, eh?

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    • Polycarp says:
      November 30th, 2009 2:10 pm

      I have the same book. I wonder if Mark would have disagreed?

      Have you gotten a chance to check out Black’s book on the Aramiac issue of the Gospels? I don’t have it within reach, but I’ll check out this verse when I get home

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  3. Joel H. says:
    November 30th, 2009 7:02 pm

    I have some thoughts about shabachthani here. In short, I’m unconvinced by Lamsa.

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