Source: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/kermitzarleyblog/2017/06/jesus-god-2-peter-1-1/
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 13:01:55+00:00

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The New Testament (NT) has two epistles whose authorship is accredited to the Apostle Peter. Titles of books and letters of the Bible were often penned after they were written and probably by a different hand. The early church unanimously accepted that Peter wrote 1 Peter; but for centuries the church disputed whether he wrote 2 Peter. Most modern, historical-critical, NT scholars have rejected that he did so. Since its salutation attests to Peter’s authorship, and for other reasons, I am inclined to accept that Peter wrote 2 Peter.
The only problem passage in 1 and 2 Peter that has to do with whether or not Jesus is God in 2 Peter 1.1. It has grammatical problems very similar to those in Titus 2.13 and 2 Thessalonians 1.12, which mostly concern word order. The question is, Does the last phrase in 2 Peter 1.1 mention Two Persons, viz., the Father and Christ, or One Person, viz., Christ? The One Person view calls Christ “God;” the Two Persons view does not.
1. In the Greek text, the absence of an article preceding soteros (Savior) indicates that the pronoun hemon (our) applies only to theou (God).
Rebuttal: Doxologies addressed to Christ are irrelevant as to whether he is called “God” because Jesus said of the Father, “it is his will that all should pay the same honour to the Son as to the Father” (John 5.23 New English Bible).
Rebuttal: Divine inspiration prohibits pagan influence.
4. The nearby compound construction with its anarthrous soteros (savior) in 2 Peter 1.11 (“our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”) parallels “God” and “Savior” in v. 1, which suggests that both are compound titles.
Rebuttal: The compound title, “Lord and Savior,” appears nowhere else in the NT except in 2 Peter where it occurs four times (2 Peter 1.11; 2.20; 3.2, 18). This evidence, along with the generally accepted late date of authorship for 2 Peter, suggests that the expression “Lord and Savior” had by then become a fixed formula, making an article preceding “Savior” assumed. This repeated compound title, “Lord and Savior,” in 2 Peter is not a suitable parallel for “God” and “Savior” in 2 Peter 1.1.
1. The author would not call Jesus “God” in v.1 and inject confusion by distinguishing God and Jesus later in the same sentence, in v. 2—“the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.” So, the ambiguity in v. 1 should be interpreted by the clarity in v. 2.
Rebuttal: If the author had wanted to distinguish the Father and Jesus in v. 1 he would have clearly done so, as in v. 2.
2. The expression, “our/the Lord and Savior (Jesus Christ),” had become a fixed formula so that the use of “God” in v. 1 must be intended to distinguish God and Jesus.
Rebuttal: Authors should be considered free to vary a stereotyped expression.
3. The position of the pronoun hemon (our) between the two nouns—theou (God) and soteros (Savior)—separates and thus distinguishes them.
Rebuttal: When two nouns have one article, one personal pronoun applies to both. 4. If Peter authored 1 and 2 Peter he would not have written, “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1.3), and then call Jesus “God” in 2 Peter. Plus, Peter never calls Jesus “God” in any of his evangelistic speeches recorded in Acts.
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