Christianity is not biblical

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Psalm 22

Psalms are poems or hymns to God. They are not usually prophecy and none of the Psalms clearly point to Jesus.

Psalm 22 is often called the resurrection Psalm and it is claimed as a prophecy about Jesus, but when read as a literal reading it is a petition to God by a Psalmist who has problems with enemies which is a common complaint in Psalms. 


Psalm 22:2 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my loud complaint? 3 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not hear; and in the night, and I have no rest.4 But you are holy, O you who are enthroned on the praises of Israel.5 Our fathers trusted in you; they trusted, and you saved them .6 They cried to you, and were saved; they trusted in you, and were not 7. But I am a worm, and not a man; scorned by men, and despised by the people.8 All those who see me mock me; they move the lip, they shake their head, saying,9 He trusted on the LORD that he would save him; let him save him, seeing he delights in him.10 But you are he who took me out of the womb; you made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.11 I was cast upon you from the womb; you are my God from my mother’s belly.12 Do not be far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.13 Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me.14 They open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and a roaring lion.15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.16 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and you lay me down in the dust of death.17 For dogs surround me; the assembly of the wicked encircle me; they seize my hands and my feet like a lion.18 I can count all my bones; they look and stare at me.19 They divide my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing.20 But you, O LORD, be not far from me; O my strength, hasten to my help.21 Save my soul from the sword; my only one from the power of the dog. 22 Save me from the lion’s mouth; for you have answered me from the horns of the wild oxen. 23 I will declare your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation will I praise you. 24 You who fear the LORD, praise him; all you the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you the seed of Israel. 25 For he has not despised nor loathed the affliction of the afflicted; nor has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard. 26 My praise shall be of you in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before those who fear him.27 The humble shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD. May your heart live for ever!28 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. 29 For the kingdom is the LORD’s and He is ruler over the nations. 30 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all those who go down to the dust, and he who cannot keep alive his own soul, shall bow before him. 31 Their seed shall serve him; it shall be told of the LORD to the coming generation.32 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he has done this.


There is nothing about Jesus in this Psalm. The Psalmist is praying to God for help. He complains of being scorned and despised by others. He asks God to save his soul from the sword and describes his enemies as encircling him and seizing his hands and feet like a lion. The Psalmist is clearly a mortal who needs help and who puts his faith in God who does not despise the afflicted. If this is about Jesus as Christians claim, why would he be asking God to save him from the sword? If Jesus was a god he could save himself from the sword, he would not be praying this. The Psalmist also promises to praise God (verse 26), is Jesus going to praise himself? This is nothing to do with Jesus, it is a Psalmist’s petition to God to save him from his enemies.

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