Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

We'll go ahead and get started.

And when we get started in just a moment,

we're going to be picking up at the beginning of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans Chapter 6.

It's been a little while since we did the second half of Chapter 5.

And the second half of chapter five was pretty

dense as we worked through it we talked about how the second half of Romans chapter five beginning

with verse 12 is probably one of the most i guess you could could say, controversial passages in the Bible,

in that it's the text from which the doctrine of original sin developed in the West.

And so that's one of the major differences between Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity.

It's also was one of the main texts used in the Reformation to argue for a lot of Protestant doctrines.

But I'm not going to go through all that again because it took us a fair amount of time last time.

So eventually, I can't really say soon anymore, that Bible study will be available on ancient faith.

By the time anyone's hearing this recording, it'll already be available.

But our lead time right now is close to a year.

So it's going to be a while.

But to get us caught up, as we mentioned all the way back at the beginning, and again, by the time anyone's hearing this, the first Bible study on St. Paul's Epistle of the Robins will also be available, and you can go back and listen to the introduction.

But in Rome, under the Emperor Claudius, the Jewish community had been expelled from the city for a period of a couple of years.

And so this had sort of fragmented the Christian community in the city of Rome.

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