Scripture-first response
“Why did Jesus say God forsook Him?”
The crucified Son voices real human suffering and invokes Psalm 22. The cry does not mean God’s divine being split apart.
What the objection is claiming
Jesus’ suffering cry is treated as an ontological rupture inside God.
Hebrews 5:7-8
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;Open full referenceIn the days of His flesh, Jesus prayed, suffered, and learned obedience as the Son.
How the passages answer it
Jesus bears the suffering of the righteous Servant and the weight of human sin. God remains in Christ accomplishing reconciliation, even as the true human Messiah experiences agony, rejection, and death.


