My pastor and I had a great conversation recently, centering around Galations 4.
In that time, the system of education was such that the student never surpassed the teacher (Socratic system). The teacher knew it all and had it all. The teacher guided the student to knowledge...his knowledge. When the teacher passed, the student would only carry on the teacher’s knowledge...nothing higher was attained.
Apostle Paul comes along and undermines that system among the Galatians by telling them they, as students, can become greater than the teacher. They can be hired into the university and teach others! The socratic method is disassembled as Christ - THE teacher- subsides and the students become the master. They “red-pill” the people aropund them.
That’s how I delineate the current situation when I struggle with making parallels to Biblical accounts, persons and timelines.
Q is still a socratic teacher and we are the students that will never surpass him. This is unlike the accounts of spreading the Gospel “unto all the earth”.
Correspondingly, we do know that we have heavenly salvation. Q is just helping us in our earthly travails.
Excellent analogies.