Redemption by Plantinga

Plantinga starts this chapter talking about God's mercy to the undeserving. Even when he kicked Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, He took care of them by providing them with warm clothe. God's grace and mercy is shown throughout history. He promised Abraham and his descendants that He will take care of them, and He keeps His promise. He takes care of the Israelites while they were crossing the desert even though they complained all the time for what they didn't have. He sent us His one and only Son - the Messiah, the Lord, the Son of God, the Son of Man, Christ, and the Savior. According to Plantinga, "He is both the sacrificial lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and the good shepherd who lays down his life for his sheep." Jesus Christ came to give His life as a ransom for many as it is written in Mark 10:45. Jesus Christ suffered and was crucified and died. He then rose from the dead. The Lord is risen. That is still not the end of the story. Whoever believes in Christ will be saved and will have eternal life. I think this story tells much of the persistence of God's grace. After all, this story of God's grace and mercy is quite pointless if we, His creatures, don't believe in it. The point was that through Christ's death people will be saved. We have to believe in it and live a Christian life so that we could be saved. We have to be in Christ. With double grace (sanctification and justification) and faith combined, we should be united with Christ. Yet those who refuse to believe in this will probably enjoy their short life engaging in sinful acts. Those are the ignorant and stupid ones who does not know what is good and will have something worst waiting for them later on - hell. "Those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it" (Matt. 16:25) Plantinga concludes saying that we should then live as Christians, die and rise with Christ, and everything we do in our lives we should do it for Him.