Romans 1-8 Analysis

Romans chapters 1-8 is a foundation for a correct biblical worldview, but it dives further into the deeper questions of life. Such as God’s existence or what right and wrong is. Paul instead is addressing certain challenges the Gentiles and Jews encountering. To address these challenges, he creates a foundation for a biblical worldview they could use. He teaches how a Christian should view the natural world, our human identity and our human relationships: as well as culture.

In the first chapter of Romans, Paul begins building a biblical worldview for the church in Rome by identifying God as creator. This gives a reason for, “God’s wrath in his ‘annihilating reaction’ against sin” (Barclay 25) and God’s regretful abandonment of men to their sin (Barclay 29) (Rom 1:24-25). Paul reveals that the state of the natural world was corrupted, but in love, God gave man the ability of general revelation through creation. Nevertheless because of this act of love no man can be
While the concept of slavery to God is a bit strange in the Western culture, Paul gives a compelling statement concerning who we obey. “…when [we] offer [ourselves] to someone to obey as his slave, [we] are slaves to the one whom [we] obey…” (Rom 6:16). Paul is teaching the contrast of obedience to our flesh and to God. He wants the church to understand how beautiful it is to be under God’s law. Romans 5:6-10 exemplifies human weakness as well as God’s might. In God’s might, he has justified, reconciled, and sanctified us from our sin. From Jesus’s sacrificial love we as humans are given a new identity in Christ. Paul’s description of human identity seems to back up my own worldview of human identity. I believe the human identity is in Christ, but we can only find this identity by choosing God as king over our lives. The term king is used in the most serious of terms. We are his slaves, but He is a gracious and loving