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Christ Is God over All: Romans 9:5 in the Context of Romans 9–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

George Carraway suggests that Paul meant to refer to Jesus as God in Romans 9:5, and that the apostle’s statement is not out of place in the given how Romans 9–11 unfolds. He addresses objections to this conclusion, responding to those who claim that a monotheist such as Paul would not refer to Jesus as God, and to those who point out that Paul does not elsewhere identify Jesus as God. After...

most noteworthy about this text is that Paul uses the same text from Isaiah in Romans 11:34 where he clearly refers to God. That suggests some ambiguity in delineating strictly between Jesus and God.73 Thus, this passage is an example of the way theocentrism and christocentrism are interwoven among many Old Testament quotes.74 In addition to direct quotes or allusions, Walter Elwell pointed out that Paul can speak of Christ in other ways that are the same way the Old Testament speaks of God. Among
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