This letter from Paul was written to the Roman Church to explain to them what the true gospel was that Paul would bring to them if he was able to visit them in person. This would also serve as a basis of his message when he would be able to visit them sometime in the future. Now Paul had never had the opportunity to visit the church so he wrote it to the people that were overseeing the church in Rome. He was aware of the fact that the church did not only consist of Jews, but he knew that it also comprised of Gentiles and Romans. We find in the last chapter who all these people were when he ends off in his customary way by naming all the people for whom the message was intended to. His main message was to ask these people to change their thinking that Jesus only came for the Jews, but that He came for every person on earth, both Jews and Gentiles. At that time we find that there were already people who believed the message of salvation of Jesus Christ and this message was brought to them by Jews and Gentiles in the synagogue in Rome as well as other places by mainly Jews who accepted the message of salvation that Jesus was the Christ. But there were different views as some believed that they were higher in statute as some of the Gentiles that converted to Christianity. So Paul now starts his discourse by using the same sequence we find in the book of Hebrews chapter 6. “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.” (Heb. 6:1-2). This church was probably started by Jews who fled Jerusalem during the destruction of Jerusalem and fled to the mountains to survive the Roman onslaught.

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