RD fumbled:
In the new covenant, Israel with keep the law with God's Spirit in them. Eze 37
That's true but its about anyone who does. God's new covenant is with all who have faith and is in effect now. That's why Rom 2 sounds the way it does about 'gentiles who do not know the law but do the things of the law'
Nope, at that point in Romans, the Apostle Paul is still laying out how things had functioned prior to the Cross of Christ he will get into only after he has finished laying both how things had functioned prior to said Cross, all the way back to Genesis 11, and how man was proven hopeless throughout by said, prior standards, or expectations of understanding and obedience.
You remain clueless to the actual flow of thought within Paul's narrative, there, in Romans 1:18 thru 3:20 - which is an interruption of what he was talking about in 1:17 (which he will return to in 3:21).
1:18 thru 3:20 are a glimpse into the Pending Wrath of God that man deserves, and why.
It serves as a contrast to the Grace of God in His Son and to His Glory that man is now being temporarily offered and that has temporarily interrupted said Pending Wrath.
Said Pending Wrath will be unleashed after this Mystery Age of Grace is over - at which point, man will be back at Romans 1:18-3:20.
That is to say, at last, man will head toward the final hours of God's Pending Wrath, which is what 2 Thessalonians 2 is a description of - a return to...where things left off at the Romans 3:20 - time to pay the Piper...
In Romans 1:18 thru 3:20, the Apostle Paul first goes into the Wrath of God that man has all along been headed towards, and how he ended up that way.
He will then touch on the Glory of God's Mystery Grace's delaying impact on said Wrath, here and there throughout Romans, and then go into it a bit more in Romans 9-11.
But it...does not...fit...your 70AD...notions...anymore than your notions on Romans 2 fits your need for your narrative...so you solved for it through the lens of your narrative...rather than through the Scripture on all this...
Makes absolute sense...to you...but that is why...not...because your resulting quagemire is actually sound...
You must be working on a new screenplay version of the Peter Fonda classic "Fighting Mad" :chuckle:
Nevertheless, Romans 5:8 towards you.