The atonement is that aspect of Christ's work which is toward God, to put away sin by suffering the divine judgment of it in His own Person; reconciliation, contrariwise, is toward us, to bring us back in Christ unto God. Both are most true; to confound them is to lose much and weaken all, and what is more serious, it is more or less to misrepresent the character of God, as if He were turned by Christ from an angry Judge into a loving Father. God is love as truly as He is light. It is what He is, not what He is made. [12]