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Personal sin separates a person from God; this state of loss of grace the Holy Fathers call abandonment by God. Christ, however, committed no sin. How then can His words on the cross be explained: My God, why have You forsaken Me?

Crucified on the Cross, the Lord Jesus Christ, in prayer, recites Psalm 21 (Psalm 22 according to Western numbering). This psalm begins with the words "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"; this prayer of a suffering righteous man contains a striking prophecy concerning the suffering of Christ. Thus, the words of Christ on the Cross have a very indirect relationship to sin and abandonment by God. The prayer of Christ on the Cross, among other things, reveals to us that the Lord shares with us the separation from God that arose as a result of our sin, and by this He overcomes it and saves us. Incidentally, the concept of abandonment by God in the patristic tradition is not entirely limited to the separation of man from God as a result of sin…

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