Matt 27:46

[Richard]

Scott from the great state of Tennessee:
A titllating point here involving Jesus as the Lamb of God: As I understand it, when a mother ewe dies, her lamb will starve to death unless a shepherd can find another ewe to suckle it. But a ewe will not accept a strange lamb, so the shepherd finds a ewe who has lost its lamb, skins that lamb, ties the skin from the dead lamb on the orphan lamb and puts it with the mother ewe in a dark lightless place for three days - after which the ewe accepts the new lamb as her own. This seems sort of like Yeshua 's three days in the tomb for our sins and we are adopted by the Father, foreshadowed by Jacob and Esau... or I could be dead wrong.
Richard

Chuck

The Father did depart from His Son, ...for three days and three nights.

This was absolutely required in order for our redemption to be secured as a matter of eternal justice and fulfilling the Word= Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man?s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. No one could meet the standard except for Christ, He alone was the "perfect" man whose blood was needed to pay the price of Adam's sin which lead to his spiritual death in the Garden. Only the second Adam was of necessary stature, yet, to meet the requirement to satisfy justice He had to be a man.

Many do not understand the legal demands, but suffice it to say that no other person who came from Adam was capable of providing our redemption. Adam was a "son of God", only "the" Son of God could pay the price for Adam's sin. Once Adam sinned he was no longer capable of paying the price to regain what he had lost, he was no longer perfect.

Christ knew this, but He asked "if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." -Matt 26:39
Christ also knew that all would depart from him, except for His Father. John 16:32 ?"I am not alone, because the Father is with me."

It is because of these and other verses that the KJV of Matt 27:46 is called into question. When we look at a version we must understand that it is not original, but it is in fact the result of a translation. The suitability of the translation is based on the mind of the individual doing the translating and the availability of manuscripts that they are using. We then have to deal with our own understanding of what is written. In this case we have two translations in one verse, the Greek and the English. If the English translation of the Greek is correct it brings into question the rest of the Bible. Christ knew that He was going to die on the Cross as our Passover, He also knew that He could walk right off of that Cross. He had the right to do so, but He chose to fulfill the Will of God.