By Kadiker Rex Dahn, MA, M.Ed., PhD
Background
In the course of history, many have distorted and misapplied the Sacred Text of the Holy Bible. Before the Holy Scripture was written, the father of all lies, distortions and misapplications, that Ancient Serpent called the Devil, maneuvered his way to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and sugarcoated Godâs instruction on the forbidden fruit.
The Serpent succeeded when he cleverly enticed, deceived and misled Adam and Eve at their detriment and the detriment of mankind. In the Early Church, distortions and misapplications to twist the meaning of the Scripture were vigorously opposed by the early church fathers. For example, Polycarp, the disciple of John, one of the twelve disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ referred to Marcion, an early heretic as âthe first born of Satanâ.