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Our culture does not encourage thoughtful reflection on truth. Yet living the gospel in a postmodern culture demands that Christians understand and internalize the truth about God and his plan for the world. Paul’s letter to the Romans remains one of the most important expressions of Christian truth ever written. Its message forces us to evaluate who we are, who God is, and what our place in this...

and Jewish Christians. Paul implies that these two groups are divided over whether believers need to obey certain provisions of the Mosaic law. (See comments on this section in the commentary.) A popular theory about the letter’s purpose today, then, is that Paul writes Romans to help heal this division. Romans 14:1–15:13 represents the heart of the letter; the theology of the earlier chapters simply prepares the way for this climactic appeal.13 The very presence of this section in the letter makes
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