Monday 3rd June

Another sunny day in prospect. We woke around 7am and the sun was streaming in through the window. I was suffering from hay fever and needed many tissues. Matthew came up and played on his mat for quite some time as Becky slept.

Becky had a French lesson this morning so we took Matthew for a walk around Challex. We stopped off at the auberge for a coffee on the way back and watched the planes coming into land at Geneva airport.

In the afternoon I went for a drive to La Plaine to take photos in e baking hot sun. It was a really hot afternoon but the wind kept it chilly when the sun went in.

Romans 2:12-16 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous.b 14 For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, although they* do not have the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts one after another accusing or even defending them 16 on the day when God judges the secret things of people, according to my gospel, throughc Christ Jesus. 

Paul seems to be accepting justification by faith outside of Christ in that people who do what e law requires without knowing it are acceptable (c.f. Acts 10:35). He concurs with James that 'doers' and not 'hearers' of the law are the righteous ones. Verse 15 (written in their hearts) echoes Jeremiah 31. Paul clearly believes there will be a day of judgment which will come to all people.