So it requires that the offender comprehend his offense, know the pain he caused. . . And both must come to agreement about the Way, the Truth and the Life . The Christian world believes forgiveness and reconciliation are the same thing but restoration does not occur on the heels of forgiveness alone. Relationships stand only on mutual values and utter honesty, dwelling together under the dominion and presence of our reigning Savior-Joseph. Our sheaves also, must be cut down and bound, to bow before to Him. . .
Reconciliation has to be built with full recognition and accountability for the wrong.
On any other ground, true fellowship is dead and forgiveness alone will not resurrect it. The brothers may have regretted their treatment of Joseph. They may have been in pain over their father's long term grief. But they had no idea what it was to experience danger and injustice, to be terrified under the power of a cruel foreigner. Remorseful, perhaps but repentant, no. . .