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Nov 1, 2019
David, as a follow-up to yesterday’s post, could you give a summary/overview of the biblical doctrine of reconciliation?
We were estranged from God due to our sin (Is 59:1-2; Col 1:21-22; James 4:4), but God brought us into communion with Him through faith in His Son (Rom 5:10). There are two aspects of reconciliation: an objective or provisional aspect in which man is reconciled to God before exercising faith and is rendered savable (Rom 5:10-11; 2 Cor 5:18-19; Col. 1:20-22), and a subjective or experiential aspect in which man is reconciled to God when he places his faith (with his emotions, intellect, and his volition or will) in Jesus (2 Cor 5:20). In other words, reconciliation removes a barrier to our salvation caused by sin, but this does not by itself result in our salvation.
