Rom 10:10-15  "For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.  For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame." For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.  For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."  How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?  And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!" 

There is confusion over God's love, He will not withhold it from anyone who humbly believes and receives. It doesn't matter where you have been or come from. It doesn't matter how far away from the love of God you have been. The great cry against God is "They didn't know!"; "There is nobody that told them!"; "Surely God is not loving if He judges Israel for rejecting a messiah they did not hear about?" "You say they were rejected because of unbelief, how is that fair?"

Yes, they have been told. They have heard it all their lives through the Psalms and through Isaiah the prophet.

Isaiah 52 and 53 declared who the messiah would be- what He would do- how He would be treated by His own people. Isaiah according to Paul is the word of Christ!

Rom 10:16-18  "But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ. But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world." 

David declares the word of Christ!
Psalm 19 declares the truth. You cannot claim to have not been told about obedience that comes from faith!


Psa 19; 1 - 6 "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.  Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,  which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat." 

 

There is no one other than Paul that would know better about the teachings of the Tanahk, the truth about the messiah in the Holy Scriptures and how Jesus fulfilled these teachings. He went to the synagogues first wherever he went to preach. He was a Hebrew, Pharisee, a star student of Gamaliel and a Rabbi. 

The Absolute Love is jealous for His children. He is Absolute Love. Have you heard of righteous jealousy?

Rom 10:19-21  "But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, "I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry."  Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, "I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me." But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."