Having shown that God would be proved right in judging the sins of
the unfaithful Jews, Paul anticipates yet another objection:
Objection: God has no right to condemn the Jews, after all the unfaithfulness of the Jews results in God being proved righteous and truthful.
Romans
3:5 - If our unrighteousness brings out God's
righteousness more
clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing His wrath on us?
Romans
3:7 - If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?
Paul refutes this argument by showing that such a view leads to absurd conclusions and therefore must be wrong.
Paul shows that if it is unjust for God to condemn sin because it
increases His glory, then we would be forced to conclude that:
God has no right to judge the world (Romans 3:6) This is an absurd
conclusion. God is the Creator of the world He has every right to judge it!
It would be good to sin more since this would increase Gods
glory! (Romans 3:8) This too is an absurd
conclusion! God is a holy God! The idea that we should sin more in order to
bring glory to God would be an offense to His character!
Having shown that an objection to Gods condemnation of sin leads
to absurd conclusions, Paul
concludes that the unfaithful Jews condemnation is deserved. (Romans 3:8)