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[tebza4jesus]

I hope someone will come to my rescue on this one.

I am reading Romans 9:5, which goes as follows in NIV.

Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised![a] Amen.

Does this not mean that Christ is God?

I noted that NIV has a footnote attached to this, that offers the following options!

1. "...Christ, who is over all. God be forever praised!Amen"
2. "...Christ. God who is over all be forever praised!Amen"

Had I read only the text as it appears in NIV I will have simply concluded that Christ is GOD but now this two options confused me. I checked other versions and most of them attaches the word GOD to the Christ.

Most of the commentaries that I also looked into for clarity also refers to Christ as God who is above all.

Please help.   

1.Is Christ God?
2.Does he also have a God as mentioned in Ephesians 1:17?
3.Does then God has a God? 
4.Why did the translators of so many versions refer to Christ as God if that is  not the case?

  tebza4jesus
 

[Craig]

You may be confusing the title "God" with the Father, and the Son (Jesus)

Think of God as a surname

God the Father
and God the Son (Jesus)

Jesus and His Father are both God and equal in that respect, but the Father is greater.  Like at my house, my son is a Parsons and I am a Parsons so we are equal in that respect, but I am greater than my son (at least for now  )

Craig

[AK4]

Hi Tebza

Try reading Rays Who and What is Jesus and Who is His Father.  Ray explains this very well in there.

Anthony