Yhwh
Who is Paul's "god of this age"?
A viral post says Paul is the false apostle in Revelation 2:2. Paul never writes Satan in 2 Corinthians 4:4. The sentence names two gods. The one who blinds is Yhwh, and Christ is the image of the Father.
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Summary
The recording starts with a viral post. On October 12, Protestia posted Kay Podgee saying Paul is the false apostle Jesus warned about in Revelation 2:2. Paul says useful things and odd things. He is a man. The test is what Jesus said.
The answer you were given is Satan. Paul writes a title, not that name. The argument starts at 2 Corinthians 2:14, with Moses, the stone tablets, and the old covenant. Paul calls that covenant a ministry of death. Yhwh gave it.
The veil starts on Moses' face and ends on the minds of the people hearing Moses read. Those are the minds the god of this age blinds. Deuteronomy 29:4, Isaiah 6:9–10, and Isaiah 29:10 already have Yhwh closing eyes. The older uses of the title name that god, not Satan. One is 1 Enoch 1:4. The other is Daniel 5:4 in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
2 Corinthians 4:4 has two gods. The first blinds people so they cannot see Christ. The second is the one whose image Christ is. 2 Corinthians 4:5 and 1 Corinthians 8:6 name that one as the Father, and Jesus as Lord. 2 Corinthians 4:6 says the Father shines light in the face of Christ. The old split, God or the devil, kept one assumption: Yhwh had to be the Father. Yhwh does the blinding. The Father gives the light. Yhwh is not the Father.
