Doing a concordance search n the word "forget" I could not find a scripture saying God forgives and forgets sins. Can you find a scripture saying God forgets anything, and if so the question is how a God with a perfect memory could forget anything.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Doing a concordance search n the word "forget" I could not find a scripture saying God forgives and forgets sins. Can you find a scripture saying God forgets anything, and if so the question is how a God with a perfect memory could forget anything.
“And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know Jehovah!’+ for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them,”+ declares Jehovah. “For I will forgive their error, and I will no longer remember their sin.”
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
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Heb 8:12
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Heb 10:17
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Do you agree with SonOfCaleb that God does not "forget" so much as not call it to remembrance?
If, according to this parable, God can reinstate sin and debt, does this show that God does not forget sins?
Mat 18:31
So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
Mat 18:32
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Mat 18:33
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Mat 18:34
And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Mat 18:35
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses
If, according to this parable, God can reinstate sin and debt, does this show that God does not forget sins?
Mat 18:31
So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.
Mat 18:32
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:
Mat 18:33
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Mat 18:34
And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Mat 18:35
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses
God doesnt "reinstate sin and debt". Once past sins have been forgiven by him he doesn't judge you based on that Sin again. Gods word in the Bible is very clear on this.
I think you might be incorrectly trying to conflate Gods ability to recall events EG his limitless memory with his ability to choose not to remember past sins that he has forgiven. The two are not materially related.
Didn't the Lord of the parable reinstate the forgiven man's sins/debt? Otherwise, the man forgiven would have owed the master nothing.
Read the parable again and note the context. The slave who had his financial debt forgiven him by the Master choose not to forgive another slave who owed him 100 denarii.
The emphasis of the parable is to forgive which the slave who was owed 100 denarii choose NOT to do even though he had been forgiven for paying back a far greater sum of 10,000 talents to his own master.
Remember the parable is only illustrative of the importance to forgive. Try and understand the essence of what Jesus was saying rather than applying a literal conflation of the parable with Gods ability to provide forgiveness of sins, otherwise you'll miss the point of the parable.