How were we reconciled to God? Romans 5:10 says "by the death of his Son."

This needs some explanation. If you say simply that we were reconciled by the death of His Son, then everyone would be reconciled, right? Reconciliation requires participation on our part, doesn't it? So you're in danger of chopping off the verse to say something Paul was not intending it looks to me.

We reconciled by faith, aren't we? Doesn't faith need to come into play somewhere? You can't just take a portion of verse of Paul and make conclusions based on that, without taking into account what else Paul has written, can you? Wouldn't that be picking what you want, the very thing you said we can't do?

I didn't define who the "we" consisted of, or didn't consist of. I assumed the reader already knew that. I am simply going by what Paul stated in that verse in Romans 5:10. If you want to add more to it, go to it, but it was clearly stated by Paul in that text that "we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son." Using other texts, for example, John 3:16, I would say that the "we" in Romans 5:10 is the "whosoever" in John 3:16. The "God so loved the world" part shows that it has been offered to the whole world. Only the whosoever in the world that responds will benefit eternally.

When the loud cry, "It is finished," came from the lips of Christ, the priests were officiating in the temple. It was the hour of the evening sacrifice. The lamb representing Christ had been brought to be slain. Clothed in his significant and beautiful dress, the priest stood with lifted knife, as did Abraham when he was about to slay his son. With intense interest the people were looking on. But the earth trembles and quakes; for the Lord Himself draws near. With a rending noise the inner veil of the temple is torn from top to bottom by an unseen hand, throwing open to the gaze of the multitude a place once filled with the presence of God. In this place the Shekinah had dwelt. Here God had manifested His glory above the mercy seat. No one but the high priest ever lifted the veil separating this apartment from the rest of the temple. He entered in once a year to make an atonement for the sins of the people. But lo, this veil is rent in twain. The most holy place of the earthly sanctuary is no longer sacred. {DA 756.5}

All is terror and confusion. The priest is about to slay the victim; but the knife drops from his nerveless hand, and the lamb escapes. Type has met antitype in the death of God's Son. The great sacrifice has been made. The way into the holiest is laid open. A new and living way is prepared for all. No longer need sinful, sorrowing humanity await the coming of the high priest. Henceforth the Saviour was to officiate as priest and advocate in the heaven of heavens. It was as if a living voice had spoken to the worshipers: There is now an end to all sacrifices and offerings for sin. The Son of God is come according to His word, "Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God." "By His own blood" He entereth "in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." Heb. 10:7; 9:12. {DA 757.1}