*RECONCILE/*RECONCILIATION - also see HEAL, FORGIVE, REPENT
Reconciliation is the the act, state, process of:
no longer being opposed (ie. to the will of God)
bringing into agreement or harmony (Dict)
Mankind is invited to change their attitude and accept the provisions God has made - see Repentance. (Coming to God's Life)
God accomplishs reconciliation by exercising His grace towards sinful man by:
death of Christ in propituary sacrifice under the judgment due to sin
ie. death of Christ is a favorable offering
thereby God will deliver us from justly deserved wrath of separation (Coming to God's Life)
Aikido is the art of reconciliation. Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe... What I had wanted to do with muscle had been accomplished with kind words. I had just seen Aikido in action, and the essence of it was love. I would have to practice the art with an enttirely different spirit. (Soup, p58)
Judah had made the reconciliation possible - not by discounting all responsibility for his sins but by acknowledging them fully. (Beginning, p115)
The Son is a mediator who exercises his influence on man as well as on God. The RECONCILIATION of God to man, and this the Son accomplishes by fulfilling the law and paying the required price. The renovation of man "that we may be conformed to the image of Christ - to make them God-like". (Paradise3, p101)
... reconciled. For a husband, this means spending enough time with his wife to really get to know her - it means listening to her, taking time to understand her feelings. The same is true of his children. (PK Pres. Randy T. Phillips, True Reconciliation Belongs to God Alone, Men of Action, Spring '96)