Les Feldick Bible Study

Who is the God who commended His love toward us in Romans 5:8?

The God who commended His love toward us in Romans 5:8 is the Almighty Creator, the Triune God. The verse says, “But God, the Almighty Creator, Triune God, commended, extended His love toward us.” Everything is based on His love, and this God is identified as the triune God who extended His love toward us.

Les teaches from Romans 5:8 that the God who commended His love toward us is the Almighty Creator, the Triune God. Les explains that the verse says, “But God, the Almighty Creator, Triune God, commended, extended His love toward us.” He stresses that everything is based on His love, and he notes that these verses are loaded if people will examine them. In the surrounding context, Les also emphasizes that after a person believed, God sealed them with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest or down payment of our inheritance. That surrounding teaching presents God as the one who marks believers as His own, while Romans 5:8 specifically identifies Him as the Almighty Creator and Triune God whose love was extended toward us.

Romans 5:8

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.