Some times a child may ask his parent, “I know God made everything in the world, but who made God?” While the parent’s answer will not be fully appreciated until the child is older, the parent answers, “No one made God. God is. God always has been; and God always will be.” But to understand one who is eternal is even difficult for the adult to understand, let alone a young child. The same difficulty exists when one tries to explain the love of God. You cannot explain the infinite. Every attempt to reduce things to a human level will always fall short. It doesn’t really do justice to try to explain the sun by a candle, or the ocean by a drop of water. Even from a human point of view it is difficult, if not impossible, to explain the emotion of human love by the love that exists between a parent and a child. If that is so, how will you explain the invisible and emotions that are divine?
Romans 5 marks another major turning point in this treatise. The Holy Spirit assumes the reader has accepted the argument for justification through faith and then proceeds to spell out the implications of this new relationship in the lives of those who are justified.
After explaining God’s righteousness, the Holy Spirit then offers an extended illustration of God’s righteous as seen through the lives of several Old Testament characters.
