Explain the relationship between alienation and reconciliation?

Answer 1

Alienation occurs when someone turns his or her back on you and refuses to have a relationship with you or simply abandons you for reasons not known to you.

Reconciliation occurs when two individuals reconnect their relationship and resolve the problem that separated them in the first place. Such as when an adoptee finds his or her parents and are reuinited with them. Or another example would be when a separated married couple reunites and resolves their problems through forgiveness, repentance and humbleness.

So the two words are opposite in meaning.

I wrote the above answer earlier, but I decided there is another example of the meanings of the word alienation and reconciliation. We as humans tend to turn our backs on God. We choose not to have a relationship with him for many reasons. We decide he does not exist, we decide he does not care for those who suffer, we decide we want to do what we want to do rather than trust and obey Him or enjoy His loving relationship. When we choose to believe on Him, to believe that Jesus is the Son of God who paid the penalty for our sin and we surrender ourselves to His love that is real reconcilliation. It is the best reconcilliation I have ever experienced and seen in others. I hope this gives you a good idea about the relationship between alienation and reconciliation. Pegalita, Master of Divinity