46. Wasn’t God reconciled to mankind by the Cross?
God has never been an enemy of mankind but only desires our best. That’s why He warned Adam and Eve about the fatal danger of eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. After their trespass, enfeebled minds became incrementally darkened and came to imagine that God hated them instead of their fateful wrongs. That’s also why conciliation is entirely a unilateral invitation for human beings to return to their Maker and become obedient to His desire. It’s grounded in the solid historic demonstration of God non-violently appeasing and pacifying humanity at awesome personal expense; that’s what was actually happening when the Judaeans (Levitical priesthood, Herodian politicians, and popular mob alike) manipulated the Roman authorities to nail God’s Son—royal deity!—to that dread cross. May God be blessed unceasingly for His extravagantly costly peacemaking!
The Premial Atonement 