{"id":43876,"date":"2022-07-31T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=43876"},"modified":"2022-12-21T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:14:10","slug":"why-you-can-ignore-sharps-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/why-you-can-ignore-sharps-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you can ignore “Sharp’s Rule”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my recent dialogue with Dr. William Lane Craig<\/a>, I was surprised when he appealed to “Sharp’s Rule” in order to deduce “the deity of Christ” from a few verses. In this new discussion, I say what I should have said then about this bogus, theologically-motivated modern invention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ordinary believer does not<\/em> need to know the ins and outs of koine Greek grammar in order to evaluate “Granville Sharp’s Rule” – really, nowadays “Daniel Wallace’s Rule<\/a>,” according to which 2 Peter 1:1 and Titus 2:13 assert that Jesus and God are the same person<\/em>. One need only look beyond the verses in question to see each author in a wider context assuming the distinctness of Jesus and God. Charity requires that we not view each author as contradicting himself within the space of a few verses, and so, he simply can’t be collapsing together Jesus and God by only using one “the” for both of them in one sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, the two verses above are the two New Testament counterexamples which show the alleged universal rule to be false. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new discussion with Josiah of Integrity Syndicate, we discuss the above, and also the odd history of this would-be grammatical discovery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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