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Originally Posted by Esaias
If Christ is over all, as an antithesis to "as concerning the flesh", then He is God.
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There are many high Christology verses, such as the ones in
Colossians 1:16 and Ephesisans 3:9, that do not say "Christ is God".
One very possible reason is that the NT authors use God for God the Father, and they were not ultra-Sabellian.
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Originally Posted by Esaias
Godblessed is nonstandard (bad) English. Can you find one example pre-1800 of such a usage? I'd be interested to see it.
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It is nonstandard if you leave out the space or hyphen.
It is a hapax in the Greek NT, and that carries over to the English.
Here is William Sherlock (1641-1707) in 1691 discussing
"One God blessed forever more"
A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God ... The second edition (1691)
https://books.google.com/books?id=U-t-8uuCQKIC&pg=PA176
Here is one with three usages that are more adjectival than verbal.
Discourses Concerning the Ever-blessed Trinity: ... By the Author of the Divine Right of Episcopacy (1720)
Thomas Brett
https://books.google.com/books?id=1WJjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA126
https://books.google.com/books?id=1WJjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA154
https://books.google.com/books?id=1WJjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA167
More
https://books.google.com/books?id=g_BhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA286
https://books.google.com/books?id=-AEBXDT3uV4C&pg=PA68