Why do Christians believe what Paul wrote in his Epistle to Romans in 55AD?

The bible is what is called "Faction” A fictional story set in a factual time and place. Thus the time, place and real historical characters are all correct but the fictional characters and stories are not!

There is not one single mention of Jesus in the entire Roman record - that is right - not one! At the same time as he was supposed to have been around there were a number of Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are well recorded!

There is not a single contemporary record from any source and even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

He was supposed to have been a huge problem to the Romans and produced wonderful miracles but still not one contemporary record?

Even the bible mentions of him like all other references were not written until many years after his supposed death!

Pilate is recorded in the Roman record as a somewhat lack luster man but no mention of a Jesus, a trial or crucifixion that would surely have been used to make him look brighter!

At best he was an amalgam of those others but almost certainly never existed!

Not one word of it is contemporary with the period and was not written until several hundred years after the period the story is set in!! How did the apostles write their books more than a hundred years after they would have been dead?

Please realize that those claims for the Old historians are worthless since they were not even born until long after everyone in the stories would have been so long dead!

Josephus AD 37 – AD 100

Tacitus AD 56 – AD 120

Suetonius - 69 – 130 AD

Pliny the Younger, 61 AD – 112 AD

Justin Martyr (Saint Justin) AD103–165 AD

Lucian - AD 120 -180 AD but he was hostile to Christianity and openly mocked it.

Pamphilius AD 240-309 AD

Eusebius AD 263 – 339 AD

Photius AD 877 – 886 AD

Thallus - But there are no actual record of him except a fragment of writing which mentions the sack of Troy [109 BC] Showing that he was clearly not alive in biblical times.

Some even try to use Seneca. 4 BCE – 65 CE but as a Stoic Philosopher he opposed religion yet made not a single mention of a Jesus or Christianity!

Even funnier is trying to claim Celsus AD ? – 177 AD Who said that Jesus was a Jew who’se mother was a poor Jewish girl whose husband, who was a carpenter, drove her away because of her adultery with a Roman soldier named Panthera. She gave birth to an illegitimate child named Jesus. In Egypt, Jesus became learned in sorcery and upon his return presented himself as a god.

You were on a role until the line about Paul having hallucinations, and epilepsy. Yours is the first mention I have ever seen about this. It is NOT recorded elsewhere.

He was not trying to convert the Romans to Christianity. He was writing to the Church (i.e., the community of believers in Rome) about his ideas. However, he did not found the Church in Rome, so, his approach was much different than in his other letters, which were to congregations that he had founded.

You have some odd ideas regarding the motivations of the writers. Apart from Romans, Paul was writing to the churches he had founded, guiding them, correcting errors, supporting them, and so on. The Gospel writers are much later. They wrote their books as the eye witnesses to Jesus had begun to die off from old age, and Jesus had not yet returned, which they people had been expecting. So, they wrote down what they say (except for Luke, who canvassed eye-witnesses) for the benefit of mostly younger people who had not seen Jesus for themselves.

Paul was certainly pretty intense, but, to call him rabid goes too far. And, the Gospel writers were not even particularly intense; just relating the story based upon their own observations, and those of others (especially in Luke's case).

And, why do we accept Romans? Because it makes sense.

Are you Jewish? Because you've just rejected the entire Christian Greek Scriptures.

Anyway you haven't provided any actual evidence to support your rejection of the books of the Christian bible (apart from some nameless people that believe we should), Christian canon was long established by those that would know the source of the contents and the early catalogues bear witness to their place. There is little doubt about the authorship of Paul's letter even those he didn't identify himself in explicitly and no reason whatsoever to reject their authenticity.

1 tim 3:16

all script is God breathed, what Paul wrote is of God, what ur saying is heresy at best.

btw

1 cor 9:1 Paul claims to have seen Jesus.

Paul was a born again child of God, all of His words were via Holy Spirit

By your description of "desperately and rabidly" for teaching God's Word, you have just described your own tactics of preaching your sermon. Is that true? Are you desperate and rabid just because you share information that others can consider, take it or leave it?

Finding false witnesses to trump up charges against innocent people, lying and being a false witness in order to unjustly judiciously beat or murder an innocent person, beating and/or murdering people for talking/sharing ideas, those actions seem to me a more likely description of desperate and rabid.

You are mistaken. No where does it say he had delusions and epilepsy. Is that in the Satanic Bible you're reading? The book of Acts gives accounts of what happened on the Road to Damascus twice. That is all that is necessary. So you come along and criticize God's word and our creator and say the Bible should have been written differently. I can't take you seriously at all for a moment!!!

They believe his words, because they are members of a cult...and "true believers."..which is terribly sad. Incidentally, much of the worst in the N.T. is Paul-related.

Because GOD appointed Paul to his apostleship - and we always trust God

Until you do,, God does not know you

Act 9:15 But the Lord said unto Ananias, Go thy way: for Paul is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

I didn't know that he had seizures and hallucinations.

Wow pretty weird that people would except his writings under those circumstances.

We do not know for certain, this is an educated guess based on Acts 20:3.