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NASB | Romans 9:5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 9:5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to His natural descent, came the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), He who is exalted and supreme over all, God blessed forever. Amen. |
Subject: Christ Who is God! |
Bible Note: Christ is God over All! Rom. 9:5 is potentially one of the most explicit declarations of the Deity of Christ in all of Scripture. The problem is that some have argued that there should be a full stop after the word 'flesh' which would make the rest of the verse a doxology to God rather than a statement that Christ is God. The only real arguement offered in favor of this view is that Paul nowhere else explicitly says that Christ is God. Interestingly, this is the same arguement used in regards to every passage where Christ is said to be God! :-) Leon Morris lists six reasons in support of the view that Christ is here called God. (The following is a loose adaptation of Leon Morris' list) 1) The word order favors the view that Christ is being called God. 'Who is over all' precedes the word 'God' and it would be doing violence to the word order to take it as anything but a reference to Christ. 2) Doxologies begin with 'Blessed be...', not with 'God blessed'. 3) A joyful doxology is out of place in a passage where Paul has been expressing his anguish over Israel's rejection of Christ. 4) The phrase 'according to the flesh' looks for an antithesis. 5) A doxology to God here would require a very abrupt change of subject. 6) The early church Fathers usually saw these words a a reference to Christ, not as a doxology. Let us take this statement as what it is, a clear statement of the Deity of Christ. Source: Morris, Leon: The Epistle to the Romans, Eerdman's publishing, pg. 350.) Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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