ITT: We discuss the Bible and Christianity, be they its passages, the ramifications on the world, being against it all, etc. This is political, and I think loving God is very politically incorrect.

I'll kick it off with with a passage that has perplexed many people in this day and age. I should also mention that I am a layman, and I'm not in seminary nor affiliated with a proper brick & mortar church. That being said, the passage is from Matthew 27:46 (NIV): "About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?' - which means, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'"

This isn't Jesus lashing out against God. What Jesus is doing is an old Israelite custom where one would call out the first verse of a Psalm to invite the others to join in its recitation. In Jesus' case, you can read the Psalm He was getting the Israelites to recite with Him Psalm 22. Psalm 22:1 says, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" I encourage you to keep reading it yourself because Psalm 22 goes well beyond the character limit. At that time, Jesus was about to die on the cross.