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We can see how scripture supports the fact that 'The God of this age' is a direct referral to Jesus Christ.
Its a total shame that many scholars have written this off as to pertaining to Satan...in effect, heaping praises upon him.
Any serious student of scripture can easily determine that this passage is yet another GREAT verse declaring Jesus as God!
Not Satan as God!
You're the only "serious student of scripture" in the world, aren't you? So far, as far as I've seen, you haven't cited a single author from the last 2,000 years who agrees with your eisegesis on Paul's phrase, "the god of this world". I'm not saying there isn't/hasn't been anybody who does/has; maybe there is/has been. It really seems to make no difference either way. I'm just pointing to the curious fact that you haven't cited a single one, as though, perhaps, you are trying to garner some personal glory for having been, in the last 2,000 years, that one, lonely, "serious student of scripture", for having single-handedly discovered such a precious, hidden "truth" as you've discovered, and, of course, you wouldn't want anybody to think you had just lifted the idea from some other author, now, would you. No. Of course you wouldn't! Rather, you'd like to tell people you came to it by, as you say, "simple exegesis" (a meaningless phrase), so that you have an opportunity to show them how you can copy/paste blocks of Greek text (which, for all anybody knows, you can barely (if at all) read/interact with, yourself) into your forum posts. It is as easy to copy/paste paragraph upon paragraph of Greek text into a post as it is to meaninglessly chant the word "context" over and over and over...
How many people have you, personally, observed become Trinitarians because you have shared your "truth" with them, that Paul was not referring to Satan, but rather, to Jesus, as "the god of this world"?
And, by the way, why do you say that 2 Corinthinans 4:4 is "another GREAT verse declaring Jesus as God", rather than saying, instead, that it is "another GREAT verse declaring [the Holy Ghost] as God"? Why do you say that Paul was referring to the person of Jesus as "the god of this world", rather than saying that Paul was referring to the person of the Holy Ghost as "the god of this world"? That is, why'd you choose to paste the Son into the phrase, as you did, rather than to paste the Spirit into it?