I’m new here and I’m wondering if I’m in over my head. Probably am. I didn’t understand a lot of what I just read. That’s OK. I don’t have to. There were a couple of thoughts I had though as I was reading.

First I thought that God defined himself as “perfect relationship”. OK so that is my understanding of what the writer of John’s epistle means when he says God is love. I have to understand that simple phrase somehow, and that is how I do — God is perfect relationship. All that is good in our relationships is a mirror of God’s relationship within the Trinity.

If that is true then I also want to understand sin as being anything that violates a relationship. Sin is sin not because God is a capricious God but because sin violates God’s nature.

This is the only way I can understand sin not so much as a moral thing but as a disease thing which Jesus came to cure. And we can have all sorts of fun with that one.

Stephen