Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Looking at the usage of casting here in the Hebrew I discovered some interesting entries in the Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon. One usage is casting anything behind ones back i.e to neglect or despise. This matches this passage from Isiah perfectly, having cast all are sins behind His back, to discard as waste, useless, of no value. They are no longer in front of Him, not within His light of sight.

Even more telling is a usage in Ezekiel 18:31 in which it means “to exposes one’s life to the greatest danger”. Whose life was in danger at that moment? Those were our sins that were cast away. It was our lives that were in the greatest danger, eternal damnation. Now that our sins are no longer in His line of sight, where is the danger of losing our eternal salvation? It has shifted, cast behind His back.

This is a clear indication that eternal damnation has shifted from the guilt of sin to the sacrifice for sin. Our status before our righteous God is no longer a matter of our sinfulness but rather our acceptance by faith of the free will sacrifice offered by Christ at the cross. No one is condemned to hell for their sins. Now everything hangs on the cross, literally, in Christ.

Hebrews 10:11-12 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man (Christ), after he had offered one sacrifice for (all) sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

John 5:22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

You are either covered by the blood or guilty of the blood. Which is it?