Biblical Worldview
Jeffrey M. Nelson
Liberty University

In the book or Romans, it gives us the answers to many questions regarding the natural world, human identity culture and human relationships. The book of Romans was authored by Paul to help us find the truth about our sins and the righteousness that can only come by having absolute faith in Jesus. Paul tells us just as believers the ungodly had no reason not to know god, for God created everything (Romans 1:12-20).
As we look at our would today we can see the wonders of the creation that God has laid before us to enjoy and to maintain in abundance and have intimate fellowship with him and each other. After the disobedience of Adam and Eve, mankind has been separated from God and this has caused the natural world to spin out of control but most of all it has caused mankind to spiritually and exist into a state of sin. Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whispers (Romans 1:29).Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in then that do them (Romans 1:32). Our human identity is found by knowing God and getting to know ourselves, for we were created in God’s likeness, so in other words we are joined spiritual with God by his son Jesus who died for us. We as humans are far from perfect or without sin, we can find ourselves from day to day, week to week falling into the same traps, whether it’s looking at articles that we know is wrong or saying that we did something that we did not do. We know that something is wrong in our life and that we need to resolve it and that is when we to turn to Jesus so that he can justify and glorify us (Romans 8:30). By doing this we can reconnect with God, and live the life that we were meant to live by following Christ. The believer is not free to sin since he is under the grace of God (Romans 6:15). As you already know human relationships can be and are very complicated and downright hard at times but that’s life. When people try to make themselves into something or someone that they are not then they become fools (Romans 1:22). For example, when we start to date we really want to impress that person so we put on an act pretending to be something we are not and nine out of ten times it backfires. If we just tried to be ourselves and let the other person get to know us we then would be acting in obedience to God. We are created in Gods image so we should try to be more like God because god does not have to pretend to be something he is not. Relationships are not just between us men and women, “they are primarily between God and people” (Duvall and Hays 2008). Today’s culture is no different from that when the book of Romans were written. We still have an array of cultures today we have, American, Hispanic, Jewish, Latin just to name a few. With all these different cultures we tend to skew the true meaning, we make our culture to fit in the way we want it to fit into our culture world (Duvall and Hays 2008). “They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them” (Romans 2:15). By doing this we will not be able to understand what God is trying to tell or is saying to us. When we read a passage from the bible we must set aside our cultural differences and focus on what the lord is saying. In conclusion if we are to truly understand the natural world, human identities, culture and human relationships we need to change the way we look at each other and the world. We must open our eyes and hearts to see beyond our own beliefs and to start looking at them through the eyes of the other person. It is very easy to judge someone that looks and acts different than us as well as we do to them. We are no better that the next person for we all have sinned one time or another. If we are to overcome our sin we must first ask God to forgive us of our past, present and future sins.

Bibliography
J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel hays, Journey Into God’s Word , (Grand rapaids Michigan 2008)