We are to abide a good phrase to stay the course, the live into the faith of Jesus, to know in life, not just in doctrine and ideas, we are to walk as Jesus did. In a relationship of presence with the father. Friendship with God. Staying the course. Walking in the light.
Atonement changes our relationship with other people.
We come to know that we all stand in the same stream, we re in the same boat, we are cut from the same cloth. Hatred of the brother or sister is not the way of Jesus. Part of that darkness is that we no longer see each other as brother and sister to us. John Steinbeck s attempts at rewriting The Malory Manuscripts of King Arthur and His knights of the Round Table. It s an exciting , swashbuckling adventure.