Letter To The Gentiles: The Book Of Romans

Introduction The book of Romans was a letter the Apostle Paul wrote to the Church of Rome, on his way to Jerusalem. Written in the expectation that he would eventually visit Rome himself, the epistle is written as an exposition of the Gospel as Paul, a Jew, understood it, and delivered to the church of Gentiles, in order to inform them and give them a more solid grasp of what it was they stood for and believed in. Being a man whose ministry held some controversy with people who believed that the Jesus’s message of salvation should not extend in the same extent towards the Gentiles, Paul felt that an establishing of goodwill between him and the Roman Church was necessary. As such, Romans in particular is an epistle addressed to people who did not know Paul personally, and as such it is written to be comprehensive and systematic . This, along with the other Epistles, was a series of letters to different churches, messages made relevant in their existence by what they symbolized—a message from a God who was now not only for the Israelites, but for all

This frees us up, not only because now we can stop worrying about life’s everyday dangers, no matter how big or small, but also our needs, no matter how insignificant or weighty they may seem to us, are nothing in the light of what God has already given us. Vices like envy and gluttony and lust pale and in fact, seem absurd in the realization that our own desires and parameters for what we “need” or ”deserve” are meaningless constructs that our sinful natures and societies have taught us to uphold and expect. Why want for more, when you already have what you need? Why be jealous of another person’s possessions, when nothing is yours to actually take, and everything is actually to be