The answer
Our Lord Christ was not questioning God; He was fulfilling the prophecy in the Holy Book of Psalm 22:1. There are many parallels between that psalm and the specific event of the crucifixion. Christ felt a deep expression of anguish when He took on the sins of the world, and experienced the abandonment that resulted from the divine wrath against the sins He had born.Answered by His Eminence Metropolitan Youssef (opens in a new tab)