ROMANS 3:5-8 AND WHY NOT SAY, ”LET US DO EVIL THAT GOOD MAY COME”?

Romans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.) 6 Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God has increased through my lie to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"? --as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.

 In verses 3:5-8 Now Paul answers the objection that his teaching speaks against the holiness and purity of God's character

1.    Objection 3  If our unrighteousness shows the righteousness of God then isn't it unjust for God to punish our sin

V-5 demonstrates the righteousness of God

If the unrighteousness of the Jews gave occasion for God to call the Gentiles then why are the Jews so blamed and criticized

Jude 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

The diamond is often laid on a black cloth to make it appear even more beautiful

I speak as a man-- Paul is emphasizing the fact that this unbiblical train of thought comes from unregenerate or corrupt minds

V-6 Certainly not...If God condoned sin then He would have not right and fair way of Judging all men

Genesis 18: 25 "Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

2.    Objection 4 If the truth of God's glory and faithfulness has increased through my lie or sin then why am I judged as a sinner…. Luke 7:47

V-7 Charles Hodge --according to this reasoning, says Paul, the worse we are the better. For the more wicked we are, the more clearly will the mercy of God be seen in our pardon

V-8 Unfortunately some had perverted the Gospel Paul preached. They argued that it not only provided a license to sin, but encouraged them to do so.

This argument is called Antinomianism if we are saved by grace alone through faith alone, by Christ alone,  totally apart from works then why does it matter whether we live a righteous life or not. Isn't it good that we sin since God will be given even greater glory as our Saviour? If you are a real Christian you will hate sin, and be angry when you and others sin. You will feel bad because you have sinned.

Men will use any excuse to justify their sin

1 John 4:8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Exodus 34:7 "keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty,

But Paul says that your sin is not justifiable in any way and God who is righteous and holy will judge it.