Tertius writes:
“Your chat with IC made me think of ‘I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.’ ”
Quite so. IC talked a little about the potential
dangers of making dogmatic theological statements on the basis of figurative
language, or what are sometimes called biblical “anthropomorphisms”. He points
out that the writers of scripture use:
“… human-style metaphors, like ‘the hand of God’, because we know what ‘hands’ are ...
not because God the Father has a physical body like ours.”
“I will remember” is another of these human-style metaphors.