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My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? text and footnotes, usccb.org United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Psalm 22:1 introduction and text, biblestudytools.com; Psalm 22 – The Servant of God Forsaken, Rescued, and Triumphant enduringword.com; Psalm 22 / Refrain: Be not far from me, O Lord. Church of England; Psalm 22 at ...
In Psalms, they are the opening words of Psalm 22 – in the original Hebrew: אֵלִ֣י אֵ֖לִי לָמָ֣ה עֲזַבְתָּ֑נִי Eli, Eli, lama azavtani, meaning 'My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?'. In the New Testament, the phrase is the only of the seven Sayings of Jesus on the cross that appears in more than one ...
Verses 9, 17 and 18 suggest that the psalmist is an old man, perhaps a king towards the end of his reign, seeking relief from distress in form of severe illness or the approach of death (verse 20), as well as the taunts of his "enemies" asserting that God has abandoned him (verse 11).
In 2011, Pope Benedict XV reflected that "prayer is not a reflection on one's self, but a complete abandonment to the word and will of God", [3] and in 2013, Pope Francis spoke of Pope John XXIII's "daily abandonment to God's will" as "a lesson for all of us, and also for the Church of our time".
The theme of God's "death" became more explicit in the theosophism [clarification needed] of the 18th- and 19th-century mystic William Blake.In his intricately engraved illuminated books, Blake sought to throw off the dogmatism of his contemporary Christianity and, guided by a lifetime of vivid visions, examine the dark, destructive, and apocalyptic undercurrent of theology.
[3] "Apostasy is a theological category describing those who have voluntarily and consciously abandoned their faith in the God of the covenant, who manifests himself most completely in Jesus Christ." [4] "Apostasy is the antonym of conversion; it is deconversion." [5]
However, in the sestet which follows, the speaker realizes that Satan has gained control instead. [37] The speaker begins to fear that he might not be one of the elect. [38] Although "he belongs to God by right," he still feels that "God has abandoned him and only the Devil seeks him." [39] The divine presence is distant and unfelt. [40]
The wise decision is to wager that God exists, since "If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing", meaning one can gain eternal life if God exists, but if not, one will be no worse off in death than if one had not believed. On the other hand, if you bet against God, win or lose, you either gain nothing or lose everything.