In Romans in particular, Paul has his sights on a problem that has been the topic of world literature for millennia before Paul, Genesis, and the Israelites: death. On some level all cultures have grappled with the question of why everyone and everything dies. Evidence of such grappling is seen both in the literature (by which I also mean things like art, cave drawings, and monuments) those cultures have produced and the religious rituals to which the archaeological evidence
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