“And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” (Jeremiah 31:34). One of the defining features of God is His omniscience. He is literally all-knowing. It seems incredible, therefore, that someone who knows everything could possibly forget our sins. I don’t believe that is what is happening. It’s not as simple of a matter of going into the archives and deleting entries from the Book of Life. Whether we repent or not, God still remembers everything that we did or didn’t do. So if our sins are not forgotten or erased even after we have repented and received forgiveness, then what must be happening instead is that the nature of our sins is what has changed. It is not that Heavenly Father remembers no more our sins, but rather he remembers still our sins, but they are sins no more. Through our sincere repentance and the miraculous power of Jesus Christ’s Atonement, our sins have been transformed into powerful catalysts of change and growth and progress, and thus, they are sins no more. The miracle of the Atonement is not that we must disavow or excise or eliminate our sinful past, but rather that we transmute our sins into symbols of our own humility and willingness to learn and submit to our Heavenly Father and, equally important, they are symbols of our Heavenly Father’s mercy and forgiveness. Our sins were a weakness, but because we came unto the Lord and showed Him our weakness, He has turned that weakness into strength. Jesus Christ did not slough off the scars He received when He was wounded for our transgressions, but rather bore them proudly as beautiful symbols of the power of the Atonement. Neither we nor our Heavenly Father are meant to forget our sins, but through repentance and forgiveness we can remember them in a different light, no more as sins but as symbols of our redemption.