Believers need to know, understand and appreciate that the salvation they enjoy has to do with these Biblical terms that develop in this order.

God created man in His own “image,” as a vessel well suited to receive and be in union with God.

But, Adam & Eve were tempted of the lie of the Devil to “Sin” in disobedience…

making Adam and all his lineage “dead” (spiritually) toward God…

and introducing “enmity (hostility)” between man and God.

But “God who is rich in mercy” planned for this to be remedied through “the love of God,”

which freely offers lost mankind “reconciliation” … and the “forgiveness of sins” …

through… “faith in God’s Son, Jesus Christ’s substitutionary death of the Cross.”

This brought the believer “peace with God” (the “enmity” was eliminated) …

and full “justification,” (being declared innocent) for all who will believe…

then to enjoy the “peace of God” within man’s heart,

while being counted as “righteous” for “right standing” with God.

Thus, believers have … access to a personal relationship with God …

being united with God now as Father… though Christ… now as “the Life-giving Spirit” in Man.

Have you ever thought of how these vital aspects our salvation fit together?

With the fall of Adam, and with all mankind being of his loins, all men have the same deadly viral infection of Sin as their very nature until it ends in death.

Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by (due to) sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Romans 5:12 (KJV)

Sins are enmity (hostility) toward God. Therefore, since Adam all mankind is conceived and born being in union with the hostile Sin nature of the Devil in both their flesh and minds.

² Wherein in time past ye (Gentiles) walked according to the course of this world, according to ‘the prince of the power of the air,’ the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: ³ Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Ephesians 2:2-3

Because the carnal (naturally fleshly human) mind is enmity (hostile) against God…. Romans 8:7a (KJV)

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:10 (KJV)

Our forgiveness and reconciliation were already accomplished by the substitutionary death of Christ. At the cross Jesus accomplished the reconciliation of mankind, thus ending all hostility. All sins are forever forgiven and the enmity between God and man is eliminated.

With that, any person of any race may now simply trust in Jesus Christ as God and Savior in order to be saved and brought into an abiding union with God now as Father… though Christ… now as “the Life-giving Spirit” in Man.