The first three chapters of Paul’s seminal letter to the Romans are an apostolic incendiary that lays waste to any and all notions of human self-sufficiency. The presumption and privilege of the Jewish Christians in Rome find themselves in the apostle’s crosshairs, as he aims to reorient any and all pretentious understandings of the gospel. This he does by insisting and stressing the unprejudiced grace of Jesus as that which holds the power for salvation, both for the Jew and the Gentile. (Rom 1:16–17; 2:9–11; 10:11–13) The gospel which reveals “the righteousness of God” is an announcement of the same not only for those of a specific bloodline but for “all who believe, since there is no distinction.” (Rom 3:21–22; 4:11; 10:4, 10–12)
Faith is not an ethnological paradigm.
Faith is not an ethnological paradigm.
Faith is not an ethnological paradigm.
The first three chapters of Paul’s seminal letter to the Romans are an apostolic incendiary that lays waste to any and all notions of human self-sufficiency. The presumption and privilege of the Jewish Christians in Rome find themselves in the apostle’s crosshairs, as he aims to reorient any and all pretentious understandings of the gospel. This he does by insisting and stressing the unprejudiced grace of Jesus as that which holds the power for salvation, both for the Jew and the Gentile. (Rom 1:16–17; 2:9–11; 10:11–13) The gospel which reveals “the righteousness of God” is an announcement of the same not only for those of a specific bloodline but for “all who believe, since there is no distinction.” (Rom 3:21–22; 4:11; 10:4, 10–12)