2009-09-30T18:23:37-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/east/ http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20103:12&version=NIV 2009-09-30T18:23:37-05:00 God doesn't just forgive our sin; He actually casts it away as far from us as it's possible to be. The phrase "as far as the east is from the west" is a rhetorical description of an infinitely long distance. http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20103:11-12&version=NIV 2009-08-12T14:24:03-05:00 We are told in the psalms that God has removed our transgressions--or sins--from us. He has placed them as far as the east is from the west, which is a poetic way of saying that they are forever removed from us.