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Originally Posted by aron
The gentile Martin Luther developed a thoroughly gentile idea of salvation based on the ministry to the gentiles as presented by Paul. Romans wasn't 'wrong' per se, far from it, but it was written by a Jew, to 1st-century Roman gentile believers in the Jewish Messiah, reconciling them to God through faith in this Messiah.
What happened centuries later is that the ideas there were plucked out of context to meet the need of a German monk who was trying to get out of the RCC. And ideas do have power. Clearly. And they can be related to the truth. Clearly. But they are not Jesus.
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Justification by faith is a good idea. It has power and truth. But it is not Jesus.
Paul was a missionary to the gentiles.
That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost. ~Rom 15:16
For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles. ~Gal 2:8
Paul's ministry was to present the Jewish Man Jesus as Jewish Messiah to the gentiles as Saviour. Salvation is in this name, there is no other.
But Jesus was a Jewish man. He was King of the Jews (Matt 2:2); King of Israel (Jo 1:49). He always was, always will be. If we don't know him as this, we don't know him as he is.