What is the recipe for hope? Take one all-powerful, loving God who is righteous and cannot stand evil, and because he is righteous cannot lie. Have God create the heavens and earth. Have God create man in His own image. Have man disobey God and become evil. Have God condemn mankind for disobeying Him. Add […]
Tag: justified
Redemption, God Bought Us Back
“Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God (Romans 1:1).“ Paul, at the beginning of the book of Romans, tells us just who he is and what he is going to write about. Paul is his name, and he is a slave of Jesus Christ and being a […]
The Bad News, The Good News, & the Gospel
The book of Romans is the greatest treatise on the gospel, the good news, of God that we have. It also contains bad news. One cannot understand just how good the good news is without knowing and understanding just how bad the bad news is. Paul starts out looking at the bad news in the […]