Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, Chapters One and Two, present a dark picture of the human race, but if you acknowledge the facts they record, you have taken the first step to salvation. By nature all of us tend to shrink back from facing up to our sins and our latent sinful nature… but we are better off if we do.

If a man has early indications of cancer, and his physician keeps the truth from him, the patient will die of cancer. A good and wise physician will say: “You have cancer and we should do something about it without delay.”

Paul was given to be the revealer of “the mysteries of God” (1Cor 4:1) to “the Church, which is His Body” (Eph. 1:22b-23a). He gives only one condition for the forgiveness of sins and salvation — which is "belief" in his Christ-given grace gospel that is emowere by the cross-work of Jesus Christ.