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Search for the Truth

For a long time, many Christians have believed that Paul's letter to the Romans is a summary of the way to salvation for sinners in need of God's mercy. Paul has been seen as teaching that all people are sinners who cannot please God or keep God's commandments in order to merit eternal life in heaven. Paul has been seen as saying that humans are not righteous and cannot be "righteous" enough to be pleasing to God and at peace with God, or "justified" as Paul says in Romans, before God. Interpreters have said, though, that in Romans, Paul sets forth his "gospel" that Jesus lived a perfect life, was perfectly righteous, and paid the debt for our sins on the cross. These readers of Paul have concluded that Paul teaches that by faith alone, trusting Jesus and His work alone for salvation, and giving up on all of our own efforts at being righteous, God reckons or credits Jesus' righteousness to us, or the "righteousness of God" as Paul says in Romans, to us, as if it were our own, so that we can be acceptable to and loved by God in this life, and worthy of heaven in the next life.
In this module, we will discover why this reading of Paul's views, especially in Romans, is inaccurate.

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