If our argument is that Romans is an anti-supremacism pastoral letter, not a manual for how to go to heaven, then what is all this business in other translations about "faith vs works?" Protestantism is built on a mountain of sermons about salvation by faith alone – sermons that point to passages like Romans 4 with glee and anti-Catholic smugness. Their whole thing is about Romans being about "how to go to heaven," right?

As with the whole of Romans, we think this "faith vs works" stuff is actually way more about this life, way more about what determines one's belonging in a local Jesus huddle today than who'll be playing football with Jesus in a big big house in the clouds by and by.

There's so much here – and we haven't even scratched all the warped ways faith is contrasted to doubt, or how its battle with works is used to sidestep justice.

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Opportunity Walks by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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