Because of Christianity, we have reconciliation. If you have watched the world and the world system you will notice a lack of reconciliation (no restoring to friendship or harmony, as Webster's would define it). There is little motivation or need to reconcile with another human being. When doing what is right in one's own eyes, the thought of reconciling with another person often invokes statements such as, "Why should I, they were wrong." or "If that's the way they treat people, I don't need them in my life anyway." But Christianity teaches us something different. The Bible tells us:
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18
Speaking of Jesus in these verses:
For it pleased the Father that in Him all fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless, and above reproach in His sight. Colossians 1:19-20
As Christians:
We reconcile with others because we've been reconciled to the Father.
We forgive because we've been forgiven by the Father through the Son.
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