The reaction is immediate. If all this is true, his interlocutor seems to reproach him: what is God’s faithfulness to his people reduced to if he has allowed them to fall so low? What is the point of being Jewish? Was it all a mockery of God? And what is more serious, almost Machiavellian—if our sins, after all, serve to show God’s goodness, are we not doing God a favor by sinning? Is it not unjust for God to allow our sins and then use them, even if it is for salvific purposes? Paul reduces all this possible argumentation to absurdity. These existential questions that human beings ask themselves about their freedom in relation to God’s freedom, about sin and punishment, about good and evil, had already found an answer in the Bible—an answer tailored to human capacity and which can only be grasped in the darkness of faith (cf. Job 40:7-14; Wis 12:13; Ex 9:16).