Read Romans 5 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
The Greek Testament has no Hebrew paragraph divisions. This is my outline of chapter four:
1:18-5:21, Justification and the righteousness of God;
1:18-3:19, The unrighteousness of man;
3:20-31, The Law cannot solve the problem of unrighteousness;
4:1-22, The faith of Abraham imputed as righteousness (justification);
4:23-25, Righteousness (justification) also imputed to us by faith;
5:1-2, Having been justified by faith, we have peace with God;
5:3-8, Hope of the glory of God not in vain, for His love is proof;
5:9-11, Reconciled while enemies, now saved from wrath to come;
5:12-21, Through one man entered sin and death/ through one Man entered justification and life.
Romans 5 Chiastic Structures:
The Bible is the infallible Word of God. In many places in the Bible, we are told that God cannot lie, but that Satan is a liar and the father of lies. Now if it is true that the Bible is the Word of the God who cannot lie, then Christians who accept darwinism as truth, must ask themselves this question: Why did God tell us a lie concerning the origin of the world and all the creatures that inhabit it? I do not believe He did lie to us. Jesus taught from Genesis as if it were authoritative, as did the Gospel writers and Paul. Nevertheless, for many years I believed as I had been taught, that the earth was billions of years old and the Genesis account, well, I never tried to harmonize the obvious inconsistencies. I just accepted both as true. But one day I was reading in Romans, and verse 5:12 stood out to me:
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—;
I realized that if death entered the world because of Adam’s sin, and Paul was teaching that this was the reason for Jesus Christ coming in the flesh and dying for our sins, then the fossil record could not have been laid down prior to Adam’s sin. Because whatever else fossils are, they are all dead, that is undisputed. I realized that I couldn’t continue to believe that Genesis was false and Romans was true; I either had to believe that Genesis was true and Romans was true, or I had to believe that Genesis was false and Romans was false. I chose the former.
Genesis 1, Bible for Beginners – Christine Miller
Romans 5, Justification and Sanctification – Christine Miller
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