The book of Romans is the letter that Paul wrote to all Christians in Rome, the main idea of which is the righteousness from God. From this book, especially from chapters 1 to 8, we can find the answers about many different life aspects such as natural world, human identity, human relationships and culture. In my opinion, Paul’s messages can also be applied to the world today. Life still contains so numerous types of sins that human cannot live away from them and no one is righteous except Jesus. Therefore, the only way to escape from the sinful world is the faith in Christ (not good works only).
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”(Gen 1:1) He formed the natural world out of nothing by the power of his voice. He revealed Himself to everyone through of the natural revelation like creation (the universe,
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Culture is one of the priorities in God’s plan. In Romans 1:5, Paul writes out the goal, “Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake.” From this point we can see that the gospel needs to be spread worldwide, especially to those who have not accepted that relationship with God. The righteousness is made by God to men by faith, not from works, and He is not the God of Jews only, but He also saves the Gentiles as well (Rom 3:28-30). The reason for this idea is that “all have sinned and continually falling short from God’s glory” (Rom 3:23). The world contains numerous types of sins, so we cannot get rid of them. The only way for us to have a better life is faithfully walking under God’s light for the rest of our life instead of good works only. The author Frederick Fyvie Bruce also insists on this point, “Paul does not mean that such works need not be performed, but that, even when they are performed tolerably well, one is not thereby justified in God’s sight” (“The Tyndale New Testament Commentaries”,