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The Gospel as It Really Is: Romans Simply Explained is unavailable, but you can change that!

Perhaps no other part of Scripture has had as profound an influence on the history of the Christian church as Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Luther said of Romans, “It can never be read or considered too much or too well, and the more it is handled, the more delightful it becomes and the better it tastes.” In this book the author aims to present a simple introduction to Romans for the ordinary...

Our salvation in Christ is greater. Through the offence of one, ‘many died’ (5:15). But in Christ there is the greater abounding of a free gift of grace. It is not greater in number, although his people are described as ‘the many’ in the original. It is greater in privilege and benefit. Christ’s power to save exceeds Adam’s power to ruin, and we receive more blessings in him than we lost at the Fall. Paul underlines this in verse 16. There are parallels between Adam and Christ, but they fail. The
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