Bibliotheca Sacra, Volume 125.
“Second, Jesus, however, spoke of God as ‘my Father.’ He used the words almost unanimously in His prayers—to be exact, twenty-one times. There is only one instance in which Jesus addressed a prayer to God and failed to use the term my Father. That occasion, of course, is the fourth utterance from the cross.6 Why? There can be only one explanation: He regarded His relationship to God at this precise moment as being a judicial one, not a paternal one. In other words, He saw Himself primarily as a man before God, not as the eternal Son before His Father.” (Page 14)
“First, He speaks of God as Father in the gospels about 170 times” (Page 14)
“The burden of the world’s sin, his complete self-identification with sinners, involved not merely a felt, but a real, abandonment by his Father. It is in the cry of dereliction that the full horror of man’s sin stands revealed.” (Page 17)
“There is no good reason to suppose that the texts found in Egypt give us an adequate sampling of texts of the same period found in other parts of the world.” (Page 337)
“Whereas sixteen dreams occur in the Old Testament record, only six are given in the New Testament” (Page 362)