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Question: Is the sea of forgetfulness in the Bible?

Answer: I believe you are referring to the comment I made about when we are saved; God puts our sins in the sea of His forgetfulness. That idea was taken from Scripture and it is found in Micah 7:19 where it says: "He will again have compassion on us, and will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." There are other verses that indicate how merciful God is and willing to forgive our sins if we will repent of them, forsake them, and turn to Christ to save us.

Here are some other examples: "Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool." (Isaiah 1:18) "As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us." (Psalm 103:12)

But Paul probably puts it best in this passage in Romans: "What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:31-39)

Another question has been asked about the Sea of Forgetfulness.

Thanks for the question,

Gary T. Panell

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