tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21224805.post4860024353428346418..comments2024-02-12T00:36:35.803-05:00Comments on Teresa's Two Cents: Moonshadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11277057132720569896noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21224805.post-58024791154779469832009-04-02T12:46:00.000-04:002009-04-02T12:46:00.000-04:00Well, so I asked my faithless question this mornin...Well, so I asked my faithless question this morning at Bible study at the Alliance church because our lesson took us to Jeremiah 31:34 and Hebrews 10:17. At the risk of everyone thinking I'm not a Christian ... well, I'm Catholic, so there you go ...<BR/><BR/>I said, "Look, I'm hung up on God forgetting sins because this Bible is chock full of a memory of personal sins, through the New Covenant."<BR/><BR/>One lady offered that we may remember our sins but God forgets them. I almost snarked back, "So, we know more than God." The whole whitewash of sin (Protestant justification) was presented as explanation. That's not an image of God I can accept.<BR/><BR/>Somebody said that I must remember that Scripture is written for our instruction. I pondered a rehash <I>of my sins</I> somehow being instructive for anyone? (I just bought <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Penguin-Classics-Augustine/dp/0143105701" REL="nofollow">Wills's translation of Augustine's <I>Confessions</I></A> the other day. I'm exited about reading it ... and maybe actually understanding it). I'm not of that caliber.<BR/><BR/>Another lady said she's beginning to forget the sins she's confessed over the years. As I struggle with memory issues myself, I can relate but that doesn't address the sins recorded in <I>the words of Scripture</I>.<BR/><BR/>Then finally another lady suggested, as you have and as I suspected, that forget is a synonym of forgive. She used Protestant language of "God doesn't reckon our sin against us." Fine. That's fine. I'm looking forward to that day, of forgive and forget.Moonshadowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277057132720569896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21224805.post-78702163584299608142009-03-29T23:32:00.000-04:002009-03-29T23:32:00.000-04:00I appreciate your comment. This is reading scriptu...I appreciate your comment. <BR/><BR/>This is reading scripture in the "plain sense," without faith.<BR/><BR/>I agree that "forgive" and "forget" may be a <A HREF="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11473a.htm" REL="nofollow">"synonymous parallelism"</A>.<BR/><BR/>Mary's reputation? I would put her in Hebrews 11.Moonshadowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277057132720569896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21224805.post-88472113241371596892009-03-26T11:55:00.000-04:002009-03-26T11:55:00.000-04:00"Which may be the principle at work in Mary's sinl..."Which may be the principle at work in Mary's sinless reputation, among other things."<BR/><BR/>Mary's sinless reputation is not a matter of scripture but that of Tradition right? Also, its a little odd to think of Mary having a "reputation". Hrm...<BR/><BR/>As far as God forgetting Manessah's sinfulness; God doesn't "forget" anything, but its not out of the scope of understanding that by "forget" is meant "forgive" or some such meaning. In short, I doubt the word "forget" is meant to be taken literally. <BR/><BR/>The Rabbinic principle that if something is not in scripture then it does not exist sounds like southern styled Christian fundamentalist stuff and Sola Sciptura.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07256869599354039179noreply@blogger.com