“Stuartcr, you are in pretty good company:”
You both are in terrible company. Read just one verse earlier:
Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Paul does not propose that anyone can be justified by the law. His argument is that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile in regards to law keeping. For the one, having the law, is judged by the law (and therefore perishes), and the other, with the law written in their hearts, perish as well.
Rom 3:19-23 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (20) Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (21) But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (22) Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: (23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
It’s quite blasphemous to claim that there is salvation in the law for infidels, when salvation is ONLY through the blood of Jesus Christ.
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I don’t recall meeting an American atheist who I would have called merely a gentile who hadn’t heard the law.
Almost every one that I have met, is anti-God, that is why he tells us that he is an atheist.