It was a personal letter from Paul to one of Paul’s dear friends Titus. Paul had become very fond of his brother in Christ and as a great spiritual leader; he wanted to write him words of encouragement and wisdom. Titus is specifically for people who have been called into ministry. One of the many main goals behind writing Titus was clear up to a misunderstanding in the churches of Crete. Another reason behind the writing was to help the churches in and around that area grow. Paul wanted to challenge them in their faith, knowledge, and living a godly lifestyle. Finally, one of Paul’s last and most known reasons was to stop the false teachers. Like all of the Epistles, Paul came to challenge and encourage Christian believers not to stay content in the life they now live but to grow and be uncomfortable in their walk with God. Paul had a very clear message, he and spoke only from the Word and what God told him. Paul shared the basic knowledge of what it means to follow Jesus and to know how to walk out a God-fearing…
The nano’s argument is that the Paul’s perspective that Christianity has been trumped by certain quarters as being a “replacement” to Judaism. But, Nano happily suggests that Christians can learn more about Judaism by reading Paul. For Nano’s, Paul was understood as a strict follower of the Torah or, at least, an observant Jew, but the proposal of law free-living is not for the Jew but for the non-Jews. This is where Nano’s brought so many Jews and non-Jews perspective, this is a strange but worth reading, that Paul is “involved in the spread of first-century Judaism from the perspective of a Jewish coalition” (167). Nano’s explains that this “a temporary group committed to a specific task” within and on behalf of the larger Jewish community”…
Paul the Apostle gave us not only some of the most profound pieces of early Christian theological reflection, but also some of the finest, poignant writing in history. Throughout Paul of Tarsus’ life, he has been able to contribute to the development of Christianity through his heritage, his personal encounter with Jesus and his life as a missionary for Jesus. AD 33, before Paul converted to Christ, Christianity grew only amongst disaffected Jews. A Jew himself, Paul spoke Greek and inherited Roman citizenship. This enabled him to put Jewish ideas into the language of the Gentiles, and because of his efforts, through his missionary journey’s throughout Asia, Macedonia and the West, Christianity grew from its beginnings in Israel to the rest of the Roman Empire.…
Romans 1-8 gives us a foundation for a Biblical Worldview. It gives us a foundation for the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and culture. Paul addresses these subjects while speaking on the wrath of God by warning us of what will happen if we turn away from the Lord. However, he also addresses how we can attain peace with the blood of Jesus. Biblical worldviews differ from those of the secular world. A Biblical Worldview which based on God’s truth and the Holy Bible which directs our life in the world. Therefore we have evidence of the truth by what is written in the scriptures. They are both very important…
The letters that Paul wrote while imprisoned focused on the unification of the church, and encouraged followers to be steadfast in their mission to spread the gospel. He addressed the topic of slavery when writing to his friend, Philemon, who was angry about his slave, Onesimus, running away. Pauls asked Philemon to not only spare the life of Onesimus, but to also count him as a brother in Christ Jesus. In his later letters, Paul spoke about that fact that the church should be prepared to face persecution, and should be prepared to give their lives for the cause, just as Jesus gave his life for the mankind.…
He states, “Men are responsible before God not only for their personal sins, but also for their national sins.” To some extent, that statement holds true in the Christian responsibility as a citizen to vote and change the political atmosphere. Still, many things that nations do are outside of the control of the everyday citizen. Looking at the first century church, Paul was a citizen of Rome, faithfully preaching the gospel, while Christians were being persecuted. Paul’s responsibility was to share the gospel, which he faithfully did, but still persecution was taking place. Later in the book he states that Christians are guilty, by “neglect of duty” to share the gospel, because people still live in sin. Again, on a personal level Christians must fulfill the personal duty of sharing the gospel. The fact that there are still people living in sin and that a nation commits sins does not mean that each believer is living in sin. Every Christian must fulfill his or her God given role in sharing the gospel and spreading the light of…
Paul uses Romans to teach about what faith truly is, and he does this in a way that is unlike any other book in the New Testament. Each word Paul wrote is of the truth and brings understanding of what God did and still continues to do in and through Jesus Christ. Paul in Romans explains that God created man to have fellowship with Him, but sin had ruined this fellowship between God and man, causing there to be a separation, a rift of some sorts. So he goes onto further explain that God set out to fix this rift between God and man, by sending Christ to make things right. Allowing for Romans to be message that would not only pertain to the Gentiles, but for every generation…
In Romans 2, Paul explains that both Jews and Gentiles need the gospeleveryone needs to be rescued from the condemnation that they rightly deserve. Although some Jews claimed to have an advantage in salvation, Paul…
A worldview is how someone sees life, reasons for making decision, and the filter they use to understand life and everything in it (Weider & Gutierrez, 2011). Knowing what a worldview is makes it easier to understand what a Christian Worldview is. A Christian Worldview uses the Bible as its filter for understanding the world around us and how we should act. Paul addresses a lot of perspectives of the Christian Worldview in his letter to the Romans. Paul touches on the Christian worldview in the areas of the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and culture.…
The wars and plagues cost the Romans a lot, especially in lives. People died day after day and soon they were searching for a hope that the wars would end and that the tragedies that they had to endure would end. Christians believed in an afterlife of eternal happiness with their Heavenly Master. As they went around teaching others--mostly those that believed in a different religion or were pagans-- of their ways, people started to convert knowing that they had a hope to look forward to as the wars raged on and the plagues…
the way Jesus would treat them and us. It was not Christ but man themselves that perverted the human experience back in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3). Therefor if…
In Paul’s epistle to the Romans he gives us the foundation of Christian life in regards to how we should not only see the world, but also how we should act in a world that rejects the gospel of Christ. In Romans 1-8 Paul teaches us how we are not able to come to a saving grace through our works, but that it must come from Christ alone, and not only to the Jews, but to the Gentiles also. Paul tells us however, that this will not be easy, but we that we need to remember who is ultimately in control of everything around us.…
In Paul’s letter to the church at Rome he addresses the Jewish and Gentile believers whom were from different cultural backgrounds. Although it customary that Jews operate under the Law of Moses, Paul wrote to them so that they might understand that they were no longer under the law, but saved by grace through Christ Jesus (Hindson & Towns, 2013). He wanted both cultures to know that in spite of their cultural difference they both stand at the same level and to let them know that all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory. Therefore, no one, no culture or group should think themselves more highly then he ought, but understand that god deals with everyone according to their measure of Faith (Life Application Study Bible, NIV, 1997). Paul wanted believers to know that it’s not about where you come from, but it’s about living under the grace of god in…
In the Book of Romans Paul wrote many letters answering questions about the human world, mankind’s relations with God, the natural world and most importantly the plan of salvation. Paul wrote these letters to tell the truth, to tell that no matter what race or religion, we are all sinner and the only way to truly become righteous is though faith in Jesus Christ. In Rome at that time you had two extremes of people, the heathens, and those who thought they were holier than thou (Jews). In todays society we still have those two extremes but we also have a middle ground, those who are straddling the fence. Paul just wanted the entire human race to know that we are guilty before God for both past and future sins.…
The apostle Paul, also known as “Saul of Tarsus,”, is the apostle to the Gentiles. (Romans 11:131 and Galatians 2:8).2 (You can use parenthetical citation for Scripture, as you did here, without having to also cite them in the endnotes.) In order for us to understand how God ordained his apostleship to the Gentiles, we must first understand his background.…