When God forgives, it is not that He forgets, for then that event would no longer exist, causing chaos in time and space. A piece of us, our past, the world, would disappear. Instead, He removes the action or event from us and no longer associates it with us, thereby giving us a new life and clean slate. He removes our sins from us as far as the east is from the west.
This is how it is when you forgive another. It is not that you will completely forget what they have done, nor that forgiving them means they did not do it. However it will no longer be a part of them. They will be your spouse, your friend, your sister, but they are no longer the person who performed that action. You experience them as new people, separate from their sins of the past.
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