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Question:
Who is now the true Jew?

Answer:
No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.
Romans 2:29

Question:
What is Paul’s attitude towards the Jewish people?
Answer:
Paul (previously called Saul of Tarsus; (c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. Generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age, he founded several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe from the mid-40s to the mid-50s AD. “Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.” Romans 10:1-2 NIV

Question:
Wat has Jesus Christ done to the law?
Answer:
Jesus is the only person who has ever kept the law perfectly. He did everything the law required, never once breaking any of its commandments. Because He was sinless, Jesus was able to meet the requirements of the law to be the perfect sacrifice. His death redeemed humanity from the curse of the law. “Jesus Christ is the end of the law, that everyone who has faith may be justified.” (Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Romans 10:4) “Love is the fulfilling of the law.” (Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. Romans 13:10)

Question:
What is Paul’s attitude toward the Jewish Law?
Answer:

Difference with Paul’s Jewish heritage and his encounter with the resurrected Christ led to an understanding that keeping the Law was impossible. Thoroughly acquainted with it from his youth, Paul learned that efforts to keep it left him with a sense of uselessness: Paul speaks in Romans 7:24 NIV: “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? ” Paul reconciles Jewish law with Christian faith by using Jesus’ words ““A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34). He states that this single commandment is a fulfillment of the entire Jewish law (Galatians 5:1–15) focuses on what those in Christ should do with our freedom in Christ. First, we must guard it, especially from those who would pressure us to follow the law.

Question:
What is the position of the Gentiles who did not know the Law of Mose’s?
Answer:
It reads in Romans 2:13-16 ESV: For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. (So, they have God’s law written on their conscience.)

Question:

What is the wrath of God?

Answer:
The other side to Holy love is Gods wrath is His opposition to evil.
Romans 1:18: The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
Romans 3:5: ‘But,’ some might say, ‘our sinfulness serves a good purpose, for it helps people see how righteous God is. Isn’t it unfair, then, for him to punish us?’ (This is merely a human point of view.)”
Romans 4:15: because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression. because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression. For the law always brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!)

Question:
What is the purpose of God’s kindness?
Answer:
Taking a major turn in the letter of Paul to the Romans. Romans 1:16–17 is the punch line of the letter is to lead all to repentance. In the gospel it has the power of God to save believers from the wrath to come. This gospel is the good news of Jesus’s death and resurrection. Good news that has power to save believers from God’s wrath, because in the gospel, day by day, week after week, year after year, God keeps on revealing his righteousness as a gift to be received by faith and for faith. For those who have their righteousness from God (not of themselves) will not perish but have everlasting life.

Question:
What picture does Paul give of the world without the gospel?
Answer:
Paul describes it as ungrateful, immoral, untruthful, worshiping, “the creature instead of the creator” full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and many other forms of wickedness. Read Romans 1:18-32.

Question:
What is the gospel that Paul proclaims in Romans?
Answer:
For Paul, the gospel is more than words, it is the power of God for salvation. He emphasizes that this salvation is not for one group of people only but is intended to help anyone on earth to be among the people of God, by faith. Romans, then, is above all about God’s salvation. “Romans 1:3-5 NIV” Regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name’s sake.

Question:
What is the nature of Romans Chapter 16?
Answer:
Chapter 16 contains Paul’s personal recommendation, personal greetings, final admonition, grace, greetings from companions, identification of writer/amanuensis and blessing. The chapter is divided into 27 verses. It seems to be a letter of introduction for Phoebe, a deaconess of the church Cenchreae, as she set out to visit the churches.