Summary Of Engaging God's World Chapter 1

In Chapters 4 and 5 of Engaging God’s World you have Chapters: Redemption and Vocation in the Kingdom of God, respectively. They share a commonality in that Redemption had to occur before we could accept our vocation in the Kingdom of God. As Plantinga says “Human misery is nearly as old as the human race but equally old is the story of God’s grace, that is, God’s mercy to the undeserving.” What is Man that we live such reckless sinful lives? In the beginning of Genesis in the Garden we observe Adam and eve make the first mistake in Chapter 3-- disobeying and instead of surely dying as God had once said-- he redeemed them from shameful nakedness to briar clothing instead. This fact stands: God is in the business of redeeming his people regardless

I feel we are unworthy of the inheritance God has promised unto us. I also feel like we must be redeemed in order to receive that kingly inheritance. Christ even see’s his daughters as sons; in the olden days sons were entitled more than the woman, so for God to claim that even woman as sons was counter- cultural for the biblical time period. We delight and be ye blithe in the fact that God would look upon us. Yet, it’s in God’s very nature to be a redeeming God. In the story of the Garden, Adam and Eve discover original sin-- the birthplace of all agony for men to come. Yet, we see God miraculously redeem them and clothe them after the fact of naked ashamedness. Noah is the only Godly specimen of all the people on Earth at a time, his family were even pagan worshipers as Professor Chip has mentioned. But God found him comparably better than those on earth at the time who were fornicating and going about their evil ways. God again redeemed Noah’s family and the animals through the flood. The third example being New Testament worthy, as Paul describes in Romans 7:15-20 Paul describes how he does not do what he’d rather do, yet he does the very thing he hates. How can this be? But a redeeming God, lest we are wiped out? I say again, God has mercy-- for as Exodus 20:5 would have it-- the sins of the parents are of the children for generations to come. We have no chance, but God. And then we have no Kingdom but his