Hi Jonathan Brink

Thank you for your comment at Provoketive Magazine (http://provoketive.com). We’re creating a space of rich conversation about life, faith, justice and culture without judgment. Our desire is to provoke the reader’s imagination through conversation and open up spaces of dialogue, learning, and hope.  We want to invite you to come back soon and continue to participate in the conversation. 

Thank you,
Jonathan Brink
Provoketive Magazine

You posted the following comment:
---------------------------------
Ruth, I wrote an entire book on debunking that myth (that God is defined by our actions and can't be in the presence of sin).  The problem is sin, but not in the way you've probably heard. It is about shame and losing site of God's original judgment of good.

http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-God-Imagination-Jonathan-Brink/dp/0615513956

What I find liberating is beginning with God's original reality in creation, that we are all human beings created in the image of God.  Grace is always there because it's within the fabric of creation.  So it allows me to see with love, in spite of what someone believes.