Forgiveness?

I have often wondered exactly what forgiveness is. I know, I know, forgiveness is taught in Sunday School at a very young age, but I am talking about the "grown-up" explanation of forgiveness. Well.....I just figured it out. Forgiveness, has been taught to us as though our sins are "washed away" by the Blood, but I was very rarely taught exactly what that means. When Jesus died on the Cross he did not only die physically, He also "became" the sins that have been committed as well as the sins that are going to be committed, much like the scapegoat that the Israelite people sent out into the desert carried all the sins of the past year out of the city. At the point of death Christ "became", or carried, all the sins, not of the past year...not even just the sin of the Christians, He became the sin that the entire world had committed, and would commit from the beginning of time until the end of this world. He paid, once and for all, the price of our sin and because of His sacrifice ALL people now have the offer of the forgiveness of their sin. Notice I said the offer of forgiveness, we still have to accept that offer. Our accepting that forgiveness is up to us, in order to accept that forgiveness we must accept not only who, what, and where we are in life but also who Christ is and what He has done for us. If your little man had drawn superman on the dinning room wall, and when you found it you dealt with it and forgave him. Now what would it make you feel like if he continued to say "I'm sorry," or "are you sure you forgive me?" every day for the next year? You would probably get tired of hearing about "the great superman caper" right. Well why do we as Christians keep bringing things up that God has already laid to rest? It was forgiven on the cross 2000 years ago, and forgotten when you accepted that God's forgiveness. This has been a real eye opener for me. And I hope to be able to explain my way of thinking, because there will be someone who disagrees. When Christ died He, as the Bible puts it, "BECAME sin," now in the old testament law there was a ceremony where they sacrificed two goats, one on the alter and the other they called the scapegoat. On this scapegoat's head the elders of the nation of Israel would put their hands, thus symbolizing the "transfer" of the sins of Israel onto this goat. This is where Christ's death comes in, at His death the sins of the world were transferred onto him. Now back to the scapegoat, the latter half of the ceremony is much the same as our acceptance of Christ. After the elders laid their hands on this goat they then sent this goat out of the city and into the wilderness, this is our acceptance of the forgiveness. Once the sin is transferred God still sees the sin until it is sent away by our acceptance of the forgiveness. In the case of the scapegoat, this sin is still in the camp until the goat is driven away. Well in our case, accepting Christ is like our laying our hands on the goat, transferring our sin onto Christ, and we then have to "drive away the goat" or forget our own sin. Satan has, for long enough, kept us in remembrance of our sin and held the people of God from completing the call God gave us. It is time many of us "drive away the goat" and move on, do the things God has instructed us to do. To trust that God has, once and forever, not only forgiven us, but forgotten the sins of the past(not just the distant past, but the immediate past as well) and move on with the Abundant Life He has promised us all.