The Bible Archive

Court in Session

In our courtroom (other articles linked below), we find the defendant’s
lawyer, Paul, showing more evidence. Men are judging God (the
defendant) and bring the unjust claim that He has no say in their
actions and is in fact faulty in His ruling. Paul’s argument then is to
defend God’s righteousness and we have already mentioned that this
defense consists of four major movements.

The first line of defense is God’s righteousness in the very
fact that He judges. We noted God’s right to judge in the future and
even His present judgments. We subsequently found that all of mankind
is guiltily under God’s righteous judgment for all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God and they know it.

We do see several sub-themes running throughout the book of Romans and
one of these is actually the basis for the major part of the defense’s
evidence?the fact that “the just shall live by faith” (1:17). We
discussed some matters of interpretation in light of the usage of
terminology in the thought-flow of Paul’s argument and now find
ourselves looking at this solution of the problem of the first section currently asking, “How is God righteous in
Justification?”