Romans Intro
Intro
About Paul's letter to the Romans
Paul was probably staying in the city of Corinth when he wrote this letter. Corinth was in the southern part of the country that we call Greece. Paul wrote this letter in about the year AD 57.
Paul wrote this letter to the Christians who were living in the city of Rome. #1:0 Rome was an important city in the world at the time of Jesus. It was a powerful city and it had a strong army. The Romans ruled many other countries and they made the people obey the laws of Rome. They made them pay taxes to Rome. At the time when he wrote this letter, Paul himself had never visited Rome. But he hoped to go there soon.
Some of the Christians in Rome were Jews and some of them were Gentiles. #1:0 A Jew was someone who belonged to the Israelite tribe of Judah. The name was first used at the time of their exile in Babylon. The people of Israel who still remain after that time are called Jews. There may have been problems between the Jewish Christians and the Gentile Christians, because they thought about things differently. They may have been meeting in separate groups, in different places. So Paul knew that he had to explain his message to both Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians.
Some Jewish Christians thought that Gentile Christians should obey the Jewish rules that God had given to Moses. #1:0 Moses was a great leader of the Israelites, who gave God's laws to the people.
So, in this letter, Paul writes about the purpose of the Jewish rules. Those rules were very good and very important. They helped Israel's people to obey God. #1:0 Israel's people were the descendants of Jacob, who was also called Israel. Jacob's 12 sons became the ancestors of Israel's 12 tribes. The land that God gave to them as their home was called Israel. But Paul explains why those rules could not save people from their sins.
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