A Barrier

Reconciliation

Is the removal of the antagonism between God and man,

the first work of God from which man benefits eternally.

Until Jesus Christ reconciled man to God, God and man

were separated by an impassable Barrier. The Barrier

consisted of sin, the penalty of sin the problem of physical

birth, the problem of the character of God, the relative

righteousness of man, and man's position in Adam, in

contrast to the eternal life and absolute righteousness

of God.

So that being justified by His grace we might become heirs
according to the HOPE of eternal life.
Titus 3:7