Nations’ faith toward Christ as toward God; access through him

That faith toward Christ is as toward God. From Romans. “Through whom we received grace and apostleship unto obedience of faith among all the nations for his name, among whom you also are called of Jesus Christ.” The nations have been called through faith. And Christ was the one proclaimed among them through the holy apostles. So the faith of those being initiated was practiced not as toward a human, but as toward God. For we do not say the nations were called from error into error by receiving the faith toward Christ; rather, having left the falsely named gods, they turned thereafter to the living God. When therefore the initiators say they received apostleship unto obedience of faith for the name of Christ, how would he not be God, if indeed faith toward him is as toward God?

“For God is my witness, whom I worship in my spirit in the gospel of his Son.” Those who worship God do not worship Christ as another god beside him; and of him, he says, is also the gospel. For he himself is proclaimed as God to the world, although the Father is God by nature and rules over all. So Christ is God—the one through whom and in whom the Father himself is also announced as God and honored with the worship from all.

“Having therefore been justified from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have also now had the access by faith into this grace in which we stand.” Believing as toward God, we are justified. And if the faith is toward Christ Jesus, and through him we have had the access, we have been joined to God and Father.