Plantinga’s chapter on redemption focused on several aspects that develop a beautiful picture of Christ. The first of the aspects of Christ discussed was the Ten Commandments. Christ says that he did not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it. The Ten Commandments tell people how to live a happy, free life. So many times, non-believers don’t come to Christ because the think of him as a man or God with rules, regulations, and slavery. However, this misconception is in place solely because tainted followers of Christ have fallen away from Him and gave the world a wrong view of Him. Christ and Paul spoke about the freedom and life lived abundantly that Christ offers. When we live within the confines of the Ten Commandments, and other principles advocated in the Bible, we confine ourselves to life that avoids wickedness. And, wickedness leads to Hell.
Another aspect of Christ that Plantinga discusses is the disappointment that he gave the Pharisees. I love this aspect of Christ! In Philippians Paul, “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, band every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Christ humiliated himself for us, and therefore we humiliate ourselves with him. We should be honored to undergo humiliation and obedience to death. Then, Paul says that Christ is glorified and honored as name above all names. And, as his servants we will delight in his glory, now, and in heaven.
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