Granville Sharp addressed the Jehovah's Witness glaring error on Christ
When Granville Sharp was born on this day, November 10, 1735 in Durham, England , his family may have expected he would follow in the steps of his father and grandfather. Both were Anglican clergymen. But Granville was destined to achieve his greatest fame in quite a different sphere. Having turned down the church of England as a career, he became a linen draper. He made a study of law, but never completed the course, accepting work in the government's ordnance office, instead. Nonetheless, his acquaintance with the law was to prove valuable. In 1765, while Granville Sharp was living in London , he met a black man named Jonathan Strong reeling in the street. Strong had been brought from the Barbados Islands by his master, David Lisle, who had beaten him severely and then abandoned him in the street. Sharp took him to St. Bartholomew's hospital , where the suffering slave took four months to recover. Afterward, Sharp found him a job. Lisle hired two thugs to recapture Strong