Talk:Epistle to the Romans

Overview
I am not sure where the editor got this "outline." Paul does not change gears at 9:12, but rather gets back to the application of the message from the beginning of the letter: All are sinners, and everyone needs God -- even the Jews.

There is no conflict in the "parts" of the letter. In other places Paul will clearly state that there are no differences between Jew and Gentile. In Romans he offers hope to his brothers in the flesh -- the Jews -- that the Messiah is there for them as well. To Rome, a Gentile church where everyone was asking "what about the Jews?", Paul was writing to assure the Jews among them that salvation was not in who you were, but in who you knew!

I chose not to "mess with" this synopsis (misplaced?  shouldn't such be above the line). As an outline, this "overview" does not work very well. Romans 5:14 is not about Jesus as the son of Adam, but as the "last" or "second" Adam. Not as the "son of man" but as the "son of God" (see Luke 3:38). Both Adam and Jesus were the son of God, their bodies special creations, and serving as representative heads of two "races."

It is true that what God does with our sin and what we do with it are separate operations, but they all come together. God sees Jesus, who has covered our sins, while we must take the remnants of sin and treat such as dead. Redeemed once, we are in a continuing process of being sanctified -- set apart for service to God! --SouthWriter (talk) 03:22, September 12, 2015 (UTC)
 * I added a new outline. A Child of God (talk) 20:05, October 13, 2016 (UTC)