Welcome to After the Fact, a knowing faith many episode where we look to take a big question

and address it in just a few minutes. Typically the questions we consider will line up with our

larger topic for the season and that's certainly true for our time today. This season on knowing

faith we are discussing Romans and joining us today is Dr. Greg Allison. Dr. Allison is Professor

of Christian theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He's the author of several books

that are including but not limited to historical theology and introduction to Christian doctrine,

50 core truths of the Christian faith and Roman Catholic theology and practice and evangelical

assessment. Dr. Allison, welcome to After the Fact. Thanks for joining us. Thanks again for

having me. I love the After the Fact. Glad to join you. Well, Dr. Allison goes way back with

the knowing faith crew. Anytime we have a chance to have Dr. Allison on we are trying to still

we've brought you in to talk about the Holy Spirit to talk about the Catholic Church to talk about

Genesis and creation accounts with Augustine. I mean, we have brought you in as our resident

historical Theologian. We are grateful for you. Thank you. Thanks. I remember high-fiving that

GT English guy right now. I'm a point that he and I were against you and Jen or something like

that. Yeah. Yeah. No, I can remember that. I can remember. I can remember the internet

definitely siding most decidedly with you in JT. I think they were wise to do so. Well,

here's our big question for today. Did Martin Luther have anything to say about righteousness of God

and Romans? Absolutely. One of Martin Luther's favorite books, if not his favorite book in the

Bible was Romans. But before he became a follower of Jesus, he really focused on Romans 117 which

talks about the righteousness of God, but that he read as the justice of God, which was about

God's wrath and condemnation towards sinners. And he as he thought about the justice of God,

he experienced terror in his heart. I mean, it was it struck just horror in his heart because he

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