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Granville Sharp was a Christian abolitionist and devout scholar of the Greek [N]ew [T]estament who wrote a monograph in 1798 on how the NT employs the Greek definite article (“the”) in respect to passages related to the Deity of Christ. He discovered six rules, the first of which has a direct bearing on how key texts in regards to Christ should be rendered in English.   Here’s an articulation of Sharp’s first rule: When two singular personal nouns/adjectives/participles that do not include...

Codex Sinaiticus   (a supposed 4 th  century AD Greek manuscript of the Holy Bible) contains an interesting variant in 2 Peter 1:1. Instead of using the abbreviation (which scholars call nomina sacra ) for "God" ( ΘΥ   – Theou ), it has the word "Lord" ( ΚΥ   – Kyriou ), which changes the reading from “our God and Savior Jesus Christ” to "our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."     As one noted NT textual critic explains:   2 Peter 1:1b   All three editions (TR WH NU) read dikaiosune tou theou...

Ben Sirach asked the question as to who has been able to see God so as to describe him:   “Because of him his messenger finds the way, and by his word all things hold together … Who has seen him and can describe him?  Or who can extol him as he is?” Sirach 43:26, 31 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)   The inspired New Testament documents provide the answer: Jesus Christ.   Christ is the uniquely begotten Son of God who is the exact imprint of God’s infinite, uncreated...