Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Your sins being 'PAID FOR' does not mean your omnipotent deity has a case of selective amnesia. Do you understand this?
I believe God is a Person of perfect self control. If God says that He forgets something, we can call it "selective amnesia" of we wish. Or we can just say that God with eternal, infinite and perfect mind has really forgotten.
He says that as far as the east is from the west He has removed our the sins from the offender. How far is the east from the west? That is an infinite distance.
"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness upon those who fear Him.
As far as the east is from the east so far has He removed our transgressions from us." (Psalm 103:11,12)
You can consider it however you wish.
I believe that
"their sins and their lawlessnesses I will by no means remember anymore." (Heb 8:12) means divine forgetting is really perfect forgetting.
I'll take the promise in faith.
Your sins are forgiven, not held against you, never spoken of again. But to understand this as God having 'literally' no memory of your transgressions is, to be blunt, childlike logic.
Either that or you underestimate Who Christ is and what it meant for Him to take the sinner's place. You should take at least equal time to consider that the effectiveness of Divine Eternal Redemption is stronger than your human imagination can grasp. The sins are really blotted out, gone, removed, forgotten by a Perfect Mind.
"I, even I, am He who wipes away [or blots out] your trangressions for My own sake,
And I will not remember your sins." (Isaiah 45:25)
Call me childish if you wish. I'm willing to wear that label.
But I believe the word of God here.