Monday, March 27, 2006

Romans Two

Romans 2

1 - 16 The Righteous Judgement of God

Do not judge others. "Do you not realize that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?" Those who by patiently do good seek for glory and honor and immortality will receive eternal life (we must do good works!) Those who are self-seeking and don't obey the truth but wickedness will recieve God's wrath and fury.
12. Those who live under the law are the Jews. 13. "It is not the hearers of the law, but the doers of the law that will be justified." 14 -Gentiles may not know the law, but they instinctively know it. 15. The conscience, an inner judge of what we do, is a standard "law" to which Gentile is accountable.

17 - 29 The Jews and the Law

A study on circumcision, the sign of the Jews' covenant with God. He's setting up the argument that gentiles, not only Jews, can become Christians. And many gentile men were happy to hear 29, "Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumsision is a matter of the heart - it is spiritual and not literal.

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