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One New Man: The Cross and Racial Reconciliation in Pauline Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the Bible, Paul argues that sin has broken humanity’s relationship with God as well as his fellow man, and he recognizes Jesus as God’s provision for the universal problem of sin. Therefore, Christ’s death for our sin is God’s only solution to racial hostility and the only provision for racial reconciliation. Today, many Christians still allow cultural prejudices to shape their understanding...

Paul concludes the contrast of Christ to Adam in 5:20–21 by saying that God’s grace increased through Christ whereas sin had increased through the law. The question raised in 6:1 is built on the following four premises: (1) Adam’s disobedience introduced sin and death into the world; (2) Christ’s obedience introduced eternal life; (3) the law intensifies the severity of sin introduced to creation by the disobedience of Adam; and (4) God’s grace through Christ overcomes the intensification of sin
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