Paul

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Paul was one of Jesus’ most important apostles. He preached about Christ in some of the toughest most diverse ancient cities in the world. One of these cities was Rome. “The task of preaching Christ in cities of the ancient world was as great as any that has ever faced Christians” (Perkins, 133). People had different beliefs, most people believed in what they could see and what was proven to them. Paul thinks that people have their own ability to think and the ability to know right from wrong. Paul proclaims that God is right, and any other worship is wrong. Rome was a large mixture of all types of religious beliefs from the Greek Gods to the Jewish community which seemed to be growing larger and larger everyday. Paul wrote a passage in the bible about Rome, called “The Letter of Paul to the Romans”. This passage was written in Corinth about 55-58 A.D. Paul’s reasoning for this was to point out to all the Romans what it is, in his mind, that they were doing wrong with their worship. Paul is trying to prove that Christ is the only true faith. “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them” (ROMANS 1:19). This is saying that people are being unfaithful not to believe that God is our creator. The fact that they all know in their hearts that God is our creator but that maybe they need some one like Paul to preach it to them. He was trying to point out that believing in these false Gods and Goddesses would at some point lead them to false behavior. “and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles” (ROMANS 1:23). This is what he explains as “The Guilt of Human Kind”.
At this time Rome was growing as an empire and becoming the strongest economically and politically. There were also a lot of other things going on in Rome at this time, things like the Roman baths which later led to same sex relati...