“For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?”
Someone might argue, 'If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?' The sophist's objection: if my lie advances God's truth, why am I guilty? This represents the ultimate perversion of grace—treating sin as a necessary ingredient in God's glory. The question anticipated reveals the depths of antinomian reasoning.
Church Fathers on Romans 3:7
“For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie unto His glory: why yet am I also judged as a sinner?” For if God, he means is shown to be a Lover of man, and righteous, and good, by your acts of disobedience, you ought not only to be exempt from punishment but even to have good done unto you. But if so, that absurdity will be found to result, which is in circulation with so many, that good comes of evil, and that evil is the cause of good; and one of the two is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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