Plantinga Ch 4 Redemption

In chapter 4 Plantinga talks about reforming all things and while I would use a different word than reform as it is my opinion that when he uses the word reform in this book it sometimes implies a little more than its dictionary definition. In any event we are in agreement this world has to change but how to go about it. There are many ways to get change in this world. However many of these pathways are closed to us because of the end result for which we are aiming along with the fact that God does not justify anything least of all the end by the means so what do we do? We work hard in our fields against the overwhelming adversity with which we are faced. Simply living our lives as Christians is not supposed to be easy and changing the world under such circumstances is something that seems nearly impossible. I should point out that I use the word nearly because I think that it is something that can be done. This is because dispite the overwhelming adversity it just so happens that we have an almighty, omnipotent being on our side who created the world. If we think that even for a moment that we cannot with his help make the world a better place then obviously we need to go and strengthen our beliefs. Because the God that I believe in can do anything except create a rock so large he cannot lift it, be unholy, or unjust and in my opinion if these few things are the only things he can’t do I think that a better world us much closer than we think.