In the book of Romans, we learn many different lessons. People even have many different opinions on the theme of Romans, but the most commonly accepted theme is the Gospel. The book of Romans covers so many different subjects, it does not just focus on Christ, like the four Gospels do, and Romans also does not just focus on the theology for Christians. The book of Romans covers a variety of things all surrounding the idea of the Good News of our freedom from sin through Jesus Christ. This idea of the Gospel should also be the base from which we build our biblical worldview, because the center of the Gospel is God and He is where we truly find our biblical worldview. If we stray from the Bible, we will be like everyone else having a worldview
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There is a broken nature that we are born with, no one has a way of escaping the lethal disease of death. When we understand that we are filthy sinners before a just God and His Son who is perfect like God the Father. Jesus Christ was able to be perfect because He was and is God. In the worldview that Christians have, we understand that death is not just a physical death, but also a spiritual death. All humans understand that at some point our physical life will end, where the debates come in is what happens after our physical bodies die. Paul speaks of how we experience two deaths in Romans 5, he says our sin has condemned us to be separated from God forever. He compares Adam and Christ in the way that through both eternal destinations are granted. Through Adam eternal death was brought into this world because he chose to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; in the same way, when Christ died on the Cross and then rose from the grave, He ushered in a new eternal destination for those who chose to believe He is who He said He is. He brought in eternal life because He lived a blameless life and died a sinner’s death, quenching God’s wrath. This is the cornerstone of our biblical worldview, if we do not believe that Christ is “the Way, the Truth, and the Light” then we can’t believe that God fulfilled his promises. If that is true then He cannot be trusted so why should we live our lives based on what He tells
There is a broken nature that we are born with, no one has a way of escaping the lethal disease of death. When we understand that we are filthy sinners before a just God and His Son who is perfect like God the Father. Jesus Christ was able to be perfect because He was and is God. In the worldview that Christians have, we understand that death is not just a physical death, but also a spiritual death. All humans understand that at some point our physical life will end, where the debates come in is what happens after our physical bodies die. Paul speaks of how we experience two deaths in Romans 5, he says our sin has condemned us to be separated from God forever. He compares Adam and Christ in the way that through both eternal destinations are granted. Through Adam eternal death was brought into this world because he chose to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; in the same way, when Christ died on the Cross and then rose from the grave, He ushered in a new eternal destination for those who chose to believe He is who He said He is. He brought in eternal life because He lived a blameless life and died a sinner’s death, quenching God’s wrath. This is the cornerstone of our biblical worldview, if we do not believe that Christ is “the Way, the Truth, and the Light” then we can’t believe that God fulfilled his promises. If that is true then He cannot be trusted so why should we live our lives based on what He tells