You wrote:
“Friend, I’m not disputing his physical appearance and never did. I accept that people saw a priest, or what they thought was a priest, and that he acted as a priest. That’s not at all the issue or my point.”
But it has to be the issue when you imply it possibly was something very different.
“I can’t even imagine what you think that passage means?”
Your imagination is not my concern. You implied something that logically makes no sense.
“Surely you don’t think Paul was saying Satan disguises himself as an angel of light with wings and a halo?”
No. But what you are implying is far more fanciful.
Forget it. You don’t understand my point whatsoever. I never disputed he appeared as a priest.