From another perspective, we have—later in the letter—Paul speaking about Jewish people, even Jewish unbelievers as Jews (3:29). So Paul is not making a ban on any non-believer in the Lord Jesus Christ calling themselves Jewish, on the one hand. And yet, on the other hand, he does make this…

Isn’t it fascinating that in Romans 2, what Paul points to back in Isaiah is hypocrisy. That a few hundred years before Paul was writing God’s name was being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of the church. And that it was still the case in the 1st century… that God’s…

The emphasis in Romans 2 is fully on those Jewish people in the church in Rome who had forgotten that they needed to view the world as people who had been credited with righteousness, not people who had earned righteousness themselves. They were people who were thinking that they could…