Romans 3 is about how God can judge the world honestly and s

Romans 3’s shock is that Torah’s real job isn’t to produce “good people” but to prosecute even its own insiders—Israel’s privilege becomes the mechanism that stops their mouths first. Then God doesn’t relax justice to justify sinners; he relocates the courtroom’s verdict onto a blood-soaked ‘mercy seat’ in public, so the only thing faith can ‘boast’ about is that boasting is over.