Steven Avery
Administrator
Romans 9:5 and Punctuation
https://forums.carm.org/threads/romans-9-5-and-punctuation.16968/
https://forums.carm.org/threads/romans-9-5-and-punctuation.16968/
Your objective here is not to get the result you want but to discover Paul's intended message.
Consider these facts:
1. The word Eulogētos
Notice how this word is used exclusively in the NT to refer to the God of Jesus.
Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One." (Mark 14:61).
"Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel." (Luke 1:68).
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Corinthians 1:3).
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." (Ephesians 1:3).
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 1:3).
"They changed the truth of God into a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is Blessed to the ages. Amen." (Romans 1:25).
"The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows that I am not lying, he being Blessed to the ages."
(2 Corinthians 11:31).
"from whom the Christ according to the flesh. God who is over all be Blessed to the ages. Amen."
(Romans 9:5).
2. The Father is over all
one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all."
(Ephesians 4:6).
from whom the Christ according to the flesh. God who is over all be blessed to the ages. Amen."
(Romans 9:5).
3. Pauline Terminology & The Jewish Berakah
"The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed to the ages, knows that I do not lie." (2 Cor 11:31).
I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying.... and from whom Christ according to the flesh. God who is over all be blessed to the ages. Amen." (Romans 9:5).
4. Paul is referring to a man of flesh who originated out of his Israelite ancestors. This man's God is someone else, the God of Israel.
"and out of whom the Christ according to the flesh."
5. The point of the overall passage is that the God of Israel gave Israel many blessings including God's Christ. Ending with a doxology to the God of Israel who is the God of Christ Jesus, is a natural thing to do in response to all these blessings the God of Israel & Jesus gave to Israel.