change his plans, as Suh implies.9 God’s actions are free, unconstrained from without. He is hardly taken by surprise by events which he did not expect. Rather, the incarnation and redemptive work of Christ were planned by God from eternity with the purpose of remoulding the entire created order, having removed human sin and guilt and conquered his enemies in the spiritual realm. Because of the personal continuity between the pre-existent and the incarnate Christ, Christ’s mediation of creation is