God doesn't just forgive our sin; He actually casts it away as far from us as it's possible to be. The phrase "as far as the east is from the west" is a rhetorical description of an infinitely long distance.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20103:12&version=NIV
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