All right, so we are in Romans chapter 5.

Romans chapter 5.

And tonight we're going to talk about anthropology,

but not what you're thinking.

Not anthropology like the scientific study of man and you know

cultures and things like that but rather we're going to be talking about sin

nature or what is wrong with mankind? Why is it that people are messed up?

And they are.

They're messed up.

But it's more complicated than that.

They're not purely messed up.

There's also good qualities and

things we see. So what's going on here and what does the scripture teach us

about who we are as people? So this is anthropology. It's an area of doctrine about what mankind is.

And we'll be getting into that tonight, along with, of course, the gospel,

because Romans were going to constantly be talking about the gospel,

different aspects of it, and different

sides of it.

So here we are, Romans 5, 6.

It says, for when we were still without strength, in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. When we were still without strength, Christ

died for us. That's us. We're the ungodly. He died for us. Now you'd be

surprised as basic as this is how many Christians do not even

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