In light of all this, the primary purpose for the writing of Romans, without which it cannot be explained at all, is that Paul wrote the letter to prepare the groundwork at Rome for his mission to Spain in case a crisis should happen in Jerusalem. If the Jerusalem church rejected him and his collection, branding him as a false apostle, repudiating his theology, and essentially declaring that his Gentile converts could not be considered part of the people of God in the fullest sense, that would have