Provide a 10 pages analysis while answering the following question: Analysis of Romans 8:1-17. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required

Provide a 10 pages analysis while answering the following question: Analysis of Romans 8:1-17. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The word, therefore, is used to signify continuity from 3:21 and hence bears a close relationship with what immediately precedes this epistle5. The word now is used to suggest the time when Christians were under condemnation and refer to a period when they died with Christ and is used to differentiate the two varied conditions. The term Condemnation means a damnatory sentence6 or to bring down judgment on someone. The term for those who are in Jesus Christ point towards the believers of Jesus Christ thus suggesting that those who believe in the Lord would never be condemned since now they are all believers and followers of Jesus Christ.

Being believers of Jesus Christ they were bestowed with remarkable blessings. In the previous verse, Paul declares that we are not condemned for which he justifies in verse two stating that the law of the spirit of life in Jesus has set you free from the law of life and death. This law was given by the Lord in accordance with the covenant that he established with Israel, knowing that the purpose of the law was to lead people towards Christ rather than producing life. But this law was perceived as a law of sin and death since it encouraged people to commit sin, do what is prohibited out of sheer temptation7.

8:3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man

This verse discusses the unfeasibility of the law to offer any obstruction against sin. God highly disapproved of sin in the flesh which was not prevented by the law nor could it provide any support or comfort to the sinner. So as a solution, God sent his own son as an offering to sin because sin has the capacity to poison or pollute the life-giving element – blood, in a man’s body and bloodshed would not account for as a proper measure to eliminate sin.