CHRIST’S OBEDIENT CROSS WORK OF RECONCILIATION (PRESUPPOSITION: DIVINE ALIENATION) The category under which we now consider Christ’s cross work—that of reconciliation—is securely based upon four major passages in which words from the -ἀλλάσσω, -allassō, word-group are employed, the meaning of which words (“to reconcile”) is undisputed. Romans 5:10–11: “If, when we were enemies, we were reconciled [κατηλλάγημεν, katēllagēmen] to God through the death of his Son, how much more, having been