0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents Mary Baker Eddy Subtitles Category: Book Book#: 10 Series: Other Writings Total Books: 39 Book: Miscellaneous Writings Section#: Section: - NA Total Sections: 1 Chapter: Questions and Answers Chapter#: 3 Subtitle: If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" Total Chapters: 19 Subtitle Level: Subtitle#: 58 Beg Pg#: 63 Total Subtitle: 36 Beg Line#: 22 Total Pgs: 2 End Pg#: 64 View/Download: available later End Line#: 8 Topics: Tags: Description: This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers. Text Content: If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" 24 Even as the struggling heart, reaching toward a higher goal, appeals to its hope and faith, Why failest thou me? Jesus as the son of man was human: Christ as 27 the Son of God was divine. This divinity was reaching humanity through the crucifixion of the human, — that momentous demonstration of God, in which Spirit proved 30 its supremacy over matter. Jesus assumed for mortals the Miscellaneous Writings --- Questions and Answers page 64 1 weakness of flesh, that Spirit might be found "All-in-all." Hence, the human cry which voiced that struggle; 3 thence, the way he made for mortals' escape. Our Master bore the cross to show his power over death; then relinquished his earth-task of teaching and dem- 6 onstrating the nothingness of sickness, sin, and death, and rose to his native estate, man's indestructible eternal life in God.