[Forest Keeper]

The difficulty with +Paul's language is that in those days no one used commas, which makes his writings subject to all sorts of fanciful combinations. Maybe you can now appreciate Kolo's comment that he doesn't particularly care for +Paul. His runon sentences are part of that reason, I am sure!

Kolo doesn't use run-on sentences. He's a lawyer. :)

But seriously, I don't think that whether there were commas or not really helps your case. I would respectfully submit that you are alone, even among Apostolics, in suggesting that Paul did not recognize Christ as God.

[kosta50]

Kolo doesn't use run-on sentences. He's a lawyer. :)

Kolo doesn't; +Paul does. :)

But seriously, I don't think that whether there were commas or not really helps your case

Depeding where you place the comma chnages the whole meaning of the sentence. That is obvious in Rom 5:9 as presented in my post #15599.

I would respectfully submit that you are alone, even among Apostolics, in suggesting that Paul did not recognize Christ as God

I have no statistics. You may be right. One thing is sure: +Paul did recognize Christ as the Son of God in the Judaic sense. Whether he saw Christ in the triune sense as we do today is not entirely clear. He never specifically says Christ is God. He says that Christ is the image of God, or that Chirst was raised by God, etc., but never that Christ is God, one and the same as the Father.