“…Andrew Das, Solving the Romans Debate (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007), 52; Richard N. Longenecker, Introducing Romans: Critical Issues in Paul's Most Famous Letter (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011), 92-93; idem, The Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016), 10. Therefore, it appears necessary for Paul to give a detailed description about the divine-issue of the divine-human relationship can be expressed variously throughout his letters, given the importance recognised by scholars of Romans in Paul's theology, even called a 'template', 2 what we observe in Romans 1-8 can provide grounds to discuss this issues further on. As will be shown, various stages of the divine-human relationship constitute the flow of Romans 1-8, for instance, the broken state (1.18-3.20), the restorative moments (3.21-26; 5.1-11), and a high-degree of intimacy (8.12-39), along with the depiction of an antithetical type of relationship (5.12-8.11).…”