What does this mean?
2007-03-26 02:59:24 · 8 answers · asked by TubeDude 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Psalm 103:12
2007-03-26 02:59:49 · update #1
As to do with the fact that the earth is globe. If you begin to travel east, you can keep going east forever. You will never reach a point at which east "ends" and you start going west instead. (Unlike north and south where once you pass the pole your direction reverses).
So the Psalm is using a "poetic image" to show that God takes our sins so far away that we can never right a point where they are not still further away.
(Kind of argues against the idea some people have that the Bible says the earth is flat).
2007-03-26 03:11:20 · answer #1 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because if he would have said North to South, they have ending points or they meet however you want to look at it the, east to the west doesn't it keeps going forever and is always going. God said this because he forgives us and forgets. Just as the east and west never are meeting, our sins will never come back to us once we sincerely ask God to forgive us and cleanse us from our sins.
2007-03-26 03:23:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think of it is by using the fact all the explorers on the time have been from Europe (i.e. great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands) and if the centre of a map is Europe then Japan, China, Korea may be to the far East.
2016-12-15 09:11:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that when God forgives, he forgets!
He doesn't hold past transgressions against us if we truly repented of them and came to him for true forgiveness. He doesn't throw them back in our face when we mess up again - seeing that we're human, we always do.
He is a loving God.
He is perfect, unlike us humans. We can claim to forget when we forgive, but do we really?
God has the ability to forget what we did wrong. And won't bring it up again! Wonderful quality!
2007-03-26 03:05:04 · answer #4 · answered by ♥LadyC♥ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all, God didn't say this, David did.
It means that God completely cleanses the soul of the repentant.
2007-03-26 03:05:24 · answer #5 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means He forgives our sins and He does not count our transgression.. But we must really repent...
http://amazingfacts.org/items/Read_Book.asp?SelLang=en&ID=79
2007-03-26 03:45:42 · answer #6 · answered by John3:16 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that once you have repented and turned from your sin, that God has forgiven you.
2007-03-26 03:06:18 · answer #7 · answered by redeemed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing. It's all quite silly.
2007-03-26 03:01:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋