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Originally Posted by awareness
But they don't want the dragon back in the cage. So it's been proven down thru history that no chain is strong enough to hold him, and no cage either.
So what makes you think you can put him back in the cage? Was he in the cage back in the early church?
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Imagine you are the apostle Paul, and you have this grand commission from God to spread the message of what God has done by, with and through Jesus the Christ, and part of your commission is to organize assemblies in the various cities you go through. So, after leaving, you write letters to some of the assemblies to clarify the message and get people on board. And in the opening of the letters you name the principals for whom you are operating- God and Jesus the Christ. You introduce God as Father, and Jesus as the son of God, the Christ, the promised sent one. In the contents of the letters you speak in terms of the God of, and the God and Father of Jesus.
When Paul’s letters are read today, it’s as if there has to be a secret decoder ring used so that what is read is not what is written, but by using the secret code ring, out pops a Jesus is God message and a God is triune declaration. No one reading Ephesians as written would arrive at a triune god, Jesus is God understanding. No one reading Romans would think Paul is leading us to such a conclusion.
So when did the son of God become God the son, and when did God become triune- what a weird, grotesque entity- one being, three persons? The lamb of God became God the lamb.
And as much as people like to evoke a Holy Spirit to justify this man-made monster, the job of the Holy Spirit is to confirm truth, not to be the household cat that purrs on your lap as you pet it.
No, there was no caged dragon shown in the foundational church. But probably by the end of the 1st century it had a partial position, got bantered around for a couple of centuries, and became the main circus act by the 4th century. Good ole PT Barnum “ there’s a sucker both every minute”, so the three ring circus continues- On with the show!