I have heard (I think) that when you ask God or Jesus to forgive your sins and if you really mean it from your heart, God will remember your sins no more.  The ‘sea of forgetfulness’ is what I think it is called.  If this is true, then will these sins come up on the Judgement Day, or will God not remember them anymore?

Sincerely,
Total Recall

Dear Total Recall,

When God forgives, He no longer holds those sins against you… they never get brought up again.  The verse you are referring to is Heb 8:12.  When we confess our sins, God is faithful to forgive us (1 Jn 1:9).  It isn’t that God has amnesia; it is that He no longer holds those sins against us.  He counts us as righteous because we are faithful (Rom 4:5).  Jesus says that those who are in Christ will not be judged (Jhn 3:18).

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Good evening.  My question is when we or I get to heaven and we see our loved ones, how will we see them; will they look young, or will they look the same as we remembered them when they where here on Earth?  I would really like to know where I can find this in the Bible, so I can read it.  Thanks.

Sincerely,
This Side Of Heaven

Dear This Side Of Heaven,

When we get to heaven, our loved ones won’t look anything like what they did on Earth.  When we get to heaven, we will receive spiritual bodies (1 Cor 15:44).  On the Day of Judgment, in the “twinkling of an eye”, we will be changed (1 Cor 15:52).  In heaven, we will all look different than we do here.  For more on that subject, read the entire fifteenth chapter of 1^st Corinthians.

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After Zipporah took a flint knife and cut off her son's foreskin, why did she touch Moses’ feet with it?

Sincerely,
Not A Doctor

Dear Not A Doctor,

Zipporah didn’t touch Moses’ feet with the foreskin; she cast the foreskin at his feet (Ex 4:25).  Zipporah threw the circumcised foreskin at Moses’ feet because it was Moses’ Hebrew heritage that required the circumcision.  Moses was a descendant of Abraham, and all of Abraham’s descendants needed to be circumcised because of the covenant between God and Abraham (Gen 17:10-11).  Zipporah was not a Hebrew from birth – it was her marriage to Moses that forced her to circumcise their son.  That is why she threw the circumcised foreskin at Moses’ feet and told him that he was her “groom of blood” (Ex 4:26).  Her marriage to Moses forced her to shed her own son’s blood in circumcising him.