>From: David Lohnes <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Una's love and God's love >Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:08:17 -0400 > >>>A related question: Is there scriptural justification for the idea >>>that >>>God not only forgives our sins when we come to him but that he >>>blots them >>>out of his memory? > >From the KJV: > >Psalm 103:12 >"As far as the east is from the west, >So far hath he removed our transgressions from us." > >Isaiah 39:17b >"But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of >corruption: >For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back." > >Isaiah 43:25 >"I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own >sake, >And will not remember thy sins." > >Isaiah 44:22a >"I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, >And, as a cloud, thy sins." > >Jeremiah 31:34b >"For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no >more." > >Hebrews 8:12 >"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins >and their >iniquities will I remember no more." > >Hebrews 9:26b >"But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away >sin by >the sacrifice of himself." >("put away" is a rendering of "athetesis," the noun form of a verb >meaning >something along the lines of "disestablish," "unmake," "nullify," or >"reject.") > >Hebrews 10:17 >"And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more" > > >This is just a selection; the concept is found often in Scripture. >It's probably helpful to remember that in OT usage especially, >forgetting >and remembering are treated as acts with a distinctly volitional >aspect. For >God to "forget" sin doesn't suggest a conflict with omniscience. >It's a >purposeful, judicial act. ("Strike that from the record . . .") I >suspect >that the act of "blotting them out of his memory" could be compared >to a >presidential pardon. Whatever happened happened . . . but it never >happened. > >For reference: >"Yet did not the chief butler remember (zakar) Joseph, but forgat >(shakach) >him." >Genesis 40:23 > >Hosea 4:6b >"Seeing thou hast forgotten (shakach) the law of thy God, I will >also forget >(shakach) thy children." > >Hosea 9:9a >"They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: >therefore >he will remember (zakar) their iniquity." > >------------- >David J. Lohnes >EUCON International School >Saipan, Mariana Islands > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: >http://messenger.msn.com