The Doctrine of Divine Forgetfulness

                    The Doctrine of Divine Forgetfulness


I love reading Leviticus 16. About the Day of Atonement.

Two goats (baby goats and baby sheep - kids and lambs - are the  same word in Hebrew) were chosen.

The first was sacrificed as a sin offering and the second symbolically removed the guilt away from the people - as far away as possible.

Read the chapter. It so illustrates God's great grace!

We call the second goat the scapegoat.

If we have problems with guilt - guilt feeling or guilty conscience -
after we have confessed our sin and accepted forgiveness
(1 John 1:9) - then we ought to remember the second goat!

Other verses also talk about how God removes our guilt.

Read Psalm 103:12: "As far as the east is from the west" it says, which is so far it can't be measured by us.

Isaiah 38:11 tells us He has put our sins  "behind His back,"
where He can't see them.

Micah 7:19 says He has "hurled them into the deep sea." Not dropped them - hurled them! Why should we go fishing for them?
We should just leave them where He left them!

He no longer counts our sins against us. He doesn't keep a list of our wrong-doing. And He tells us in 1 Corinthians 13 to do the same for each other - so we can be like Him!


LET'S GET OVER THE GUILT THING  -- HE HAS!

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just

to forgive us our sins, 

and to purify us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

Love  is patient, love is kind...

it keeps no record of wrong....

1 Corinthians 13:5