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I was wondering why our Lord Jesus Christ said "eloi eloi lama sabachtani" while on the cross?

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.