JESUS CHRIST IS THE GOD BLESSED FOR EVER

Romans 9: 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (King James Version).

Romans 9:5 de quienes son los padres, y de los cuales vino Cristo según la carne, el cual es Dios sobre todas las cosas, bendito por siempre. Amén.  (Spanish Reina Valera 2004)

Romans 9:5 quorum patres et ex quibus Christus secundum carnem qui est super omnia Deus benedictus in saecula amen

(Latin Vulgata)

Romans 9:5 Na sa kanila ang mga magulang, at sa kanila mula ang Cristo ayon sa laman, na siyang lalo sa lahat, Dios na maluwalhati magpakailan man. Siya nawa. (Ang Dating Biblia 1905)

Romans 9:5 Na sa kanila ang mga ama, at mula sa kanila tungkol sa laman ay dumating si Kristo, na siyang higit sa lahat ay, Diyos na pinagpala magpakailan man. Amen.

(ABFKJV)

Romans 9:5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to flesh, He being God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

(Green’s Literal Translation)

^9:5 whose [are] the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen. (Revised YLT)

^{Romans 9:5}  Of whome are the fathers, and of whome concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is God ouer all, blessed for euer, Amen. (Geneva 1599)

^{Romans 9:5}  whose also are the fathers and they of whome (as concernynge the flesshe) Christ came which is God over all thinges blessed for ever Amen. (Tyndale)

Romans 9:5 whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.  (YLT)

^{Romans 9: 5}  ων ³⁷³⁹ οι ³⁵⁸⁸ πατερες ³⁹⁶² και ²⁵³² εξ ¹⁵³⁷ ων ³⁷³⁹ ο ³⁵⁸⁸ χριστος ⁵⁵⁴⁷ το ³⁵⁸⁸ κατα ²⁵⁹⁶ σαρκα ⁴⁵⁶¹ ο ³⁵⁸⁸ ων ^{1510, 5723} επι ¹⁹⁰⁹ παντων ³⁹⁵⁶ θεος ²³¹⁶ ευλογητος ²¹²⁸ εις ¹⁵¹⁹ τους ³⁵⁸⁸ αιωνας ¹⁶⁵ αμην²⁸¹

    ōn oi pateres kai ex ōn o khristos to kata sarka o ōn epi pantōn theos eulogētos eis tous aiōnas amen (Textus Receptus)

^{Romans 9:5}  Whose [are] the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (Websters)

^{Romans 9:5}  To them the Patriarchs belong, and from them in respect of His human lineage came the Christ, who is exalted above all, God blessed throughout the Ages. Amen.   ^(Weymouth)

^{Romans 9:5}  Whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ — according to the flesh — he who is over all, God, blessed unto the ages. Amen.

 ^(Rotherham)

The Scriptures above are from different Bible versions of Romans 9:5. These readings from different versions are proofs that JESUS CHRIST is our LORD GOD Almigthy, who is over all GOD BLESSED FOR EVER.

I hate doing this. I hate using different Bible versions to prove the truth of God’s doctrine because I am a King James Bible believer. I just want to show that even non-KJV versions are saying the same thing that JESUS CHRIST is THE GOD BLESSED FOR EVER!

Yes, I used also Latin and Greek to show to the deniers of Christ’s absolute deity that they are wrong, absolutely wrong!

IN that single verse (Romans 9:5) we can see the two natures of our Lord Jesus Christ:

1. His human nature.  “Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the FLESH Christ came…”

2. His divine nature. “…who is over all, GOD blessed for ever. Amen.”

Romans 9: 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. (King James Version).

These anti-deity of Jesus Christ say that there is a punctuation mark, after “over all” and say that the “God blessed for ever” is not Jesus Christ. But despite the comma, the flow of the sentence shows that Jesus Christ is the “God blessed for ever”. It says after “Christ came”   WHO IS over all….and continues “GOD BLESSED FOR EVER”.

The Scriptures are very clear. They understand that unless they don’t want to accept the truth. They will just naturally pervert the truth of the gospel.

These people have no hope of salvation for they reject the One who provided it for men by his sacrificial death as a Man. 

This verse coupled with Romans 5:8 and 1 Timothy 3:16 is the gospel of salvation.

         

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Jesus Christ existed before becoming a man in eternity. He existed as God, not God the Son equal with God the Father (the Roman Catholic Trinity doctrine); not as a lesser God that was created as first creature (the Jehovah’s witnesses doctrine). It is not true that Jesus Christ existed only when he was born.  No! Jesus Christ has existed even from eternity as the Eternal Great Spirit. God is a Spirit (John 4:24) and the Lord is that Spirit (2 Cor. 3:17).

He is not the Eternal Son of God for he became a Son only when he was born as a Man. His sonship has a beginning.  For his sonship was his human nature.  His sonship began and ended in his humanity. But even before he was born as the Son, he existed for ever as the Lord God Almighty “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” (Revelation 1:8).

Jesus Christ is God himself yesterday, today and for ever. He never changes. He is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, immutable and immortal.  The only thing that changed was his “form”, from “the form of God” (Phil. 2:6) unto “the form of a servant” (Phil. 2:7) being found in “fashion as a man” (Phil. 2:7). He did not cease being God but remained as God “in human flesh”.  Therefore having two natures: as God and as Man in one.  He just added humanity to his Godhood because of his redemptive purposes.

All have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23).  Man sinned against the holy God. And God as just and righteous demands that sin must be punished.  The wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23). Therefore all men who have sinned must receive the payment of sin which is death. In order to save mankind, there must be a blood shed “and without shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb. 9:22). But how can man be saved if there is “none righteous”?  (Rom. 3:10)

So it means mankind has no hope for salvation.  God is the only hope of their salvation. Their repentance, religiosity and good works of righteousness will never ever change the situation. Whatever they do are just “filthy rags” (Isa. 64:6).  Their damnation is sure and they will never escape the wrath of a holy God!

Now, it is now all up to God’s decision and plan to save mankind. In his mind in eternity he made a plan. And so he put flesh into that plan and accomplished it in the fullness of time. His plan is that someone must be a sacrifice for the sins of mankind and be their substitute to die for them and as them. That Saviour must be a man who had never ever sinned as a “Lamb without blemish” (1 Pet. 1:19). So how did God accomplish it?  He must have thought to himself “I will create a sinless man who will never sin and he will be my Son that I will sacrifice for the redemption of my people”.  That’s what these deniers of Christ’s deity think.  They think that God would just create a Saviour like himself to save mankind. But that is a foolish thinking! What kind of God is that? That is not the God of love!  He will save himself from risking his own life and make a man in his “look-a-like” and his “clone” to suffer and die as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind? That is not the God of the Bible!

The God of the Bible is this:  a God who will “save his people from their sins”  (Mat. 1:21).  And a God who will himself save by his own hands his people whom he love so much.

Isaiah 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

Isaiah 63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

Isaiah 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

 17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

Isaiah 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

 11 I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour.

 12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.

It is very clear that God himself  is the one who saves. He doesn’t need a “clone” or a “look-a-like”  to execute his plan.  According to what Abraham said in Genesis 22: 8 “God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering”.  Yes, God will provide HIMSELF a lamb. He doesn’t need another, a creature, a man or an angel to be the sacrificial lamb. HE himself will provide HIMSELF as the Lamb to be sacrificed. Through that God showed the sincerity and nobility of his love to mankind – and that is a “selfless” love.  A God who just uses another or make a “clone” Saviour just to save mankind is a “selfish” and “unfair” kind of God. Well, that is not what God did! Rather “God was manifest in the flesh” (1 Tim. 3:16). God became a man by being born as a Son of a woman under the law (Gal. 4:4). God who was “the Word” in the beginning “was made flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). He was named as “JESUS” for he shall save his people from their sins (Mat. 1:21).

Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

That son who was to be born would be called “EMMANUEL” which means “GOD WITH US”. Yes, literally “in that flesh” God was with mankind.  He made his tabernacle among men. (Rev. 21:3).

God loves mankind so much that he was willing to give his life for them as a sacrifice.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

1 John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Read John 3:16 with 1 John 3:16 in order to see the whole picture.  God himself  laid down his life for us as the Son. Yes, God cannot and does not die, but he chose to die as a Man.

How did God show his love toward us mankind?

Romans 5: 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

God showed his love toward us – mankind -  in that, while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.  The words God and Christ are used interchangeably. That is a parallel. God is Christ.  God commended his love toward us as Christ who died for us.

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

God -  the Holy Ghost – the Eternal Spirit himself purchased his people with HIS OWN BLOOD. We all know that it was Christ who redeemed us by his blood (Eph. 1:7). God is a Spirit. As a Spirit he cannot die. And as a Spirit he has no blood. But he became a man by preparing a body (Heb. 10:5) of “flesh and blood” (Heb. 2:14) in which he would dwell in all the fullness of his Godhead (Col. 2:9). Now as a Man, with “flesh and blood”, he can die and shed his precious blood as propitiation for sins (Rom. 3:25).

NO one can save mankind unless he is both God and Man. And because no one can do it, God himself did it. A man cannot save other men because he is also a sinner.  And God also cannot save man because he is God. A magic word or a snap cannot do it.  He must fulfill his righteousness.  So what did he do?  He himself did it! God was manifest in the flesh. He became a man, born as Son though remaining as God. He had to feel and experience the feelings and experiences of a human being. A mediator between God and men must be both God and Man. So God became Man called Emmanuel  (God with us) “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree”  (1 Pet. 2: 24).  “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit” (1 Pet. 3:18).

When God became a Man, the Son, did he cease being as God? No! He remained as God – being immortal, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-present. When he was on earth, simultaneously he was in heaven.

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

When he said those words he was on earth but he said he the Son of man was also in heaven.  How did that happen?  Remember, he did not stop being God.  He was God clothed in “human flesh”, having the human feelings, thoughts, experiences, circumstances, pain, infirmities and weaknesses but at the same time thinking and feeling as God. He was the “Unlimited” God who chose to be in a “limited” body.

Deniers of Christ’s deity always ask this question repetitively, just like a man who has “unlimited text” for texting his messages: “If Jesus was God then, why was he praying?  To whom was he praying, to himself?”  This question has been answered also with “unlimited text”. Remember, that Jesus Christ was a Man who humbled himself. Therefore he had to do his functions as a man who fulfills all righteousness. As a righteous man, he must have a God and he must pray to this God. He “made himself of no reputation”. When he was a Man, he was always pointing towards God the Father in heaven as “the One God” who alone is “Good” (Mk. 10:18). As the Son of God, he had a Father and that is in heaven. IS that himself?  Yes. His body was a dwelling place of the Spirit which was not only in heaven and earth but was/is everywhere. Does it mean there are three persons or three Gods:  God the Son on earth, God  Father in heaven and God the Holy Spirit everywhere?  NO! But they were three manifestations of the One God. That Father-Son relationship was only a temporary set up for redemptive purposes.

God is a Spirit, and he is Holy, that’s why he is Holy Spirit/ Holy Ghost. It is the Spirit that is immortal, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent God. He cannot be limited and he has no form. But in beginning for creation purposes, he had the form of God and made all things as the Word. He became the Father when he made Adam his son. And as the Father he was remaining in heaven.

For redemptive purposes, in the fullness of time, this immortal Eternal Spirit prepared a body of flesh and blood, and he conceived a “holy thing” in the womb of a virgin named Mary (Mat. 1:20; Luk. 1:35). So the only begotten Son of God was born. It was the Spirit God himself that was in that “holy thing” called the Son of God. The Son of God was his humanity. He was still the same God but in human flesh.  Now, we can see two offices: first, as the Holy Ghost who is immortal and eternal; second, as the Son who is mortal and temporal. As the Spirit, he was God who receives worship and prayers. As the Son, he was a man praying. As God he was sending. As Man he was sent. When he as the Son was praying, he was praying not to himself, the Son, but he (as the Son) was talking to God the Father . (I and the Father are One, says Jesus Christ).

God is One. So God is “Himself” One.  Only One. But this One being was at that time having two natures:  as the Spirit, God and as the Son, Man. His name is Jesus Christ.  If we can understand his name Jesus Christ, then we will also understand his two natures.

Two different natures in One. Spirit and flesh. God and Man. His name is Jesus Christ. Yes, his name is Jesus. Christ is a title. But later on this title is glued to his name and it became part of the name. So we call him Jesus Christ. If we know the meaning of Jesus and Christ then we will understand his two natures.

Jesus means “Je the Saviour”.  It was IESHO in Hebrew.  IESOUS in Greek. IESUS in Latin.  From the verb “to save” which is ‘ISHO” in Hebrew and “SOZO” in Greek. IE part of the introduction of God to Moses in Exodus 3:14 as “I AM THAT I AM” which in Hebrew is AEIE ASHAR AEIE.  “IE” is short of AEIE  (I AM).  It is transliterated as JE. So JE is “I AM” which is also “HE IS”, therefore “HE WHO CAUSES TO BE and TO EXIST”.  In other words, we call that as GOD. Therefore JE means GOD. JE plus ISHO will produce the name JE-ISHO or JE-SHO which means “”GOD SAVES’ or “GOD THE SAVIOUR”. This name is transliterated in Greek as IESOUS (IHSOYS) pronounced as EE-EE-SOOS and now in English as JESUS. That is why the name JESUS is not the name of a man but the name of God himself. His name JESUS represents his “Godhood”.

Christ means “anointed one”. It was MASHIH in Hebrew. CRISTOS in Greek. CHRISTUS in Latin. Transliterated as CHRIST or MESSIAH in English. Christ is the anointed of God.  As God’s anointed, he was the anointed prophet, priest and king for only these three kinds of men were the ones anointed by God in the Scriptures. He was the anointed one to be the Saviour of the world. This name Christ represents his “Sonship” and “humanity”.

So if we understand his name Jesus Christ then we will understand his two natures.

1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

We can see the parallel in 1 John 2:22. Those who DENY that JESUS is the CHRIST are those that DENY the FATHER and the SON.  Jesus Christ is the Father and the Son.  A man who denies this truth is declared “AN ANTICHRIST”.  The parallel is this:  JESUS (Father) and CHRIST (Son).  The Father and the Son in ONE NAME: JESUS CHRIST.

So are there two persons? No! Are there two Gods? No! Are there two Spirits? No!  But there are two natures: God and Man. Spirit and Flesh. Father and Son. Two Saviours? No! Only One Saviour: JESUS CHRIST.

So this Spirit God became Man in order to save you and me. He died for us. And he wants to save us to the uttermost.  What then must be our response to this selfless love of God who paid the penalty of our sins by his giving of himself as sacrifice for us?  We must believe on his name – the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 16:31). If we don’t believe that he is the Lord God Almighty, then we don’t really believe in his name and our faith is in vain.

Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt CONFESS with thy mouth the LORD JESUS, and shalt BELIEVE in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

13 For whosoever shall CALL upon the NAME of the LORD shall be SAVED.

Romans 10:9 shows also what we must believe about Jesus Christ:

1.    That he is THE LORD JESUS or JESUS THE LORD.  Confession of faith in his absolute deity as the Lord God Almighty.

2.    That GOD RAISED him from the DEAD. Confession of faith in his substitutionary work as a man Christ who died for us and was raised by God from the dead.

So these were his two natures as God and Man. This Jesus Christ is the LORD and whosoever shall call upon the name of this Lord shall be saved.  So that is his Godhood. This Jesus Christ is also a Man who died for us and was raised again by God (by himself as God) from the dead.

Back to Romans 9:5 we conclude that this Lord Jesus Christ is THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THE GOD BLESSED FOREVER but came in THE FLESH as CHRIST. GOD was manifest in the FLESH.  And GOD and MAN are ONE IN JESUS CHRIST. 

JESUS CHRIST IS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, who was, who is and is to come.

All praises be to our LORD JESUS CHRIST! Allelujesus!

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Marthy Abbakoum Austria,  Kalubusan Bishop