Romans 1-8 Analysis

In order to have a glimpse on the society in which the Apostle Paul lived, one may find it interesting to study the followings found in Romans 1—8. Perhaps, in Paul’s writings one can identify the major themes in the ancient culture’s philosophy as well as human relationships and human identity and most of all, the natural world. Furthermore, Paul saw within the culture a trend or perhaps a tendency in the society in which he himself was a part of. A troublesome propensity, in which God was not a part of, and most of all, a continuous and on-going drift away from a good moral sense. Experts have commented on the book of Romans, one in particular has called it “The book of Romans, the letter that changed the world. In my own perspective, it’s

Nonetheless, one can only imagine that if the capital of the world was on a downfall, the rest of the world was perhaps following closely in the same path. Furthermore, in chapters 4—8 Paul explains his own view of his surroundings. Paul tells us that his worldview was one of debauchery and moral wickedness. Paul makes it perfectly clear that Faith in Jesus Christ is the only escape from a world that will one day fall under the Lord’s condemnation and judgment. Perhaps, since Rome was a conglomeration of nations and customs as well as religious practices it was doomed to fell under the worship of many gods as well as the worship of nature itself. Thus, leaving the one true God, Jehovah God outside of their spectrum. The Idea of self-rightfulness was vivid in Paul’s time. The notion of believing that they could reached eternal life on their own was embedded and rooted-in their culture. Self-righteousness was a part of their life in ancient times, perhaps, it sounds like today’s culture. There identity was distorted and unclear because they had chosen to leave God out of their affairs for the most part. Thus, living is sin and with no restrictions the people lived freely in sin and debauchery, in addition to that, whatever felt good was good and proper. Come to thing of it, it sounds more and more to what we are living now in

Paul encourages the believer in Rome that there is a still hope and that not all is lost. He insists that there is a way to righteousness thru none other then Christ the Son of God, The God that they have left outside of their margins. In continuation to that, everyone regardless of culture, language, skin color and of customs may be safe through faith in Jesus Christ. That discrimination may be our own misunderstanding of God’s perspectives. Perhaps God has created us equal to one another, in regards to that, the same blood that cleanses one person is the same one that cleanses me and everybody else. Therefore in God there is no distinguishing of cultures. For we all come from the same father, our heavenly father. For now in Christ there is no Greek, Jew nor Gentile, for we all are one in Him who created