Perceptions

Teaching Greek on Monday raised some interesting questions.  We were discussing the passage in 1 John 2:12 "I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name’s sake." (NAS95).  The question was raised about forgiveness because the Greek uses the dative case " to you all" and not the accusative or genitive as might be expected (you all or your).  It raised the question of perspective, "what do we think happens when sin is forgiven?"  Does it simply drop off this plane of existence?  Is it tossed into a deep sea and never seen or experienced by anyone again?

The fun thing about translating Greek into English is that we must read the Bible more slowly, thus we give our brain the opportunity to actually think about the words we are reading!!!  Maybe we should try reading backwards in English, or upside down, or anything that lets the Word of God penetrate our cerebral cortex.

Just thinking about thinking.