Romance of Romans

Is man inherently evil?
Is man born with a nature to sin?
Why would a just God sentence men to eternal death for something over which they have no control.

"Now we know what things soever the law saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified ... " (Rom. 3:19)

The human author of Romans was Paul, a lawyer and a student of the great Gamaliel. But Paul became an apostle of God's sovereign grace so that man condemned to death because of sin according to divine justice might be pardoned.

While the book of Romans constitutes the greatest legal indictment against the entire human race ever written, this supreme tragedy ends in a love story - God loving mankind so much that He sent His only begotten Son to be judged in the place of the guilty.

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him..." (Rom. 5:8-9)