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A number of years ago there was a bit of a disaster in our house: stomach flu. Within a few days, every one of us experienced the joy which is, we are guessing, full-on norovirus. It was horrendous. The laundry machines were going non-stop, we kept fighting over the bathroom, no one got much sleep. The only advantage to everyone getting it at once was that as quickly as it came, it was gone, but while it was there, it was messy. That flu was a great equalizer in our house, all of us functioned as best as we could, and it wasn’t good at all and could not be sustained over the long run - we needed healing.
In the beginning chapters of Romans Paul cuts straight to the point regarding who we are as people: we are equals in unrighteousness, equals in our inability to seek God, which is to say, equals in sin. It is from this baseline that he then works out the theology of salvation, why Jesus had to come in the first place, and why we need to follow Him. In chapter 3 Paul is clear, we are all messy in sin, but in Christ, we can all raise our hands in worship of him.
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