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Question: What does remission of sin mean?

1. APHESIS a dismissal, release, from APHIEME, "to send away." Used
of the forgiveness of sins and translated "remission" in Matt.
26:28; Mark 1:4; Lk.1:77; 3:3; 24:47; Acts 2:38; 5:31; 10:43;
13:38; 26:18; Heb. 9:22; 10:18.

2. CHARIZOMAI "to bestow a favor unconditionally" (Vine);
translated "forgive" Mark 2:5ff.; Lk.7:47; 

3. From Trench: [APHESIS] is the standing word by which
forgiveness, or remission of sins is expressed in the N.T. Used in
LXX of the year in which all debts were forgiven (Lev.25:31,40;
27:24). More frequent in Luke that in all of the books of the N.T.
put together (p.114).

4. Heb. 8:12: "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and
their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

5. Possible only because of the vicarious suffering and death of
Jesus (Isa. 53; 1 Pet. 1:18-19)

6. Other terms: Saved (Mk.16:16); sins washed away (Acts 22:16);
Redemption (Eph. 1:7) In Christ (Rom. 6:3,4; Gal.3:26,27).

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