How Shall God Judge the World? Romans 3:6

Paul the apostle asked the Jews in Rome, “For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?”, and he added, “God forbid: yes, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.” He questioned, “But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God,

what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)”, and in chapter three and verse six of Romans, Paul answered and asked another question, “how shall God judge the world” where we read:

God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

The verse begins, “God forbid” Paul began with the word, “God” which means “the Godhead bodily and trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit never, not and in no way; perish the thought”. Paul strongly opposed the idea that “God” would be “unrighteous” by taking “vengeance” upon those who thought they “commend the righteousness of God” by their “unrighteousness”.

The verse goes on to say, “for then how shall God judge the world?” Paul continued with the words, “for then” which means “when, since, seeing then and because” “how shall God” which refers to “in what way shall the Godhead bodily and trinity which is comprised of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit” “judge” or “separate, put asunder, pick out, select, choose, approve, esteem, prefer, resolve and decree” “the world” or “the circle of the earth and it's endowments, riches, advantages and pleasures”? Paul wondered “how” “God” could “judge” the “earth and all it's contents” if he were to succumb to the “unrighteousness” of people who did not believe in Him.

When we think through these words of Paul, we understand how he would question whether God could “judge” the world if He was moved and motivated by the “unbelievers” who worked “unrighteousness”. These “unrighteous” people thought themselves justified in their behavior because they believed it only “showed and proved” God's “righteous” ways. Jesus Christ came to the earth to save people who are “unrighteous”, and everyone who realizes and repents of their “sinful” ways shall never face “God's judgment” of “the world” and shall forever live with Him.

Next time Paul asked the people in Rome, “why yet am I also judged as a sinner?”, so read ahead, and we shall join together then.

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