The Drakon’s Eternal Loosing Struggle Against Sola Scriptura:
Union and the Tensor Product of Liebestod Disunion Apneúmakatechō

by

Dallas F. Bell, Jr.

Either truth or falsehood: Toward spiritual independence, or toward spiritual servitude.--
Alexander Solzhenitsyn¹

Relationships are the intentional cognitive binding/union, ∪, of the participants in the relation. The union of the finite believer and infinite Christ is like a finite husband and his finite wife becoming one.² It begins with faith by the finite beings and continues with works of love.

If any man be in Christ he is a new creature, the old things are passed away.³ In this binding relationship, the new creature would not nor could not become old again. The infinite is a permanent completion of the process which includes the elect finite participant ∞ ∪ finite elect, means, finite elect ⊂ ∞, and so the finite elect can never cease to be a subset of the infinite set or finite elect ⊄ ∞. An Infinite set is righteous and not unrighteous and a finite set is unrighteous and not righteous (there is none good no not one).⁴

In 1944, Evgeny Schwartz wrote the play titled The Drakon (Dragon in English), which was banned in communist Russia. It was made into a movie, To Kill a Dragon, in 1988. The dragon⁵ says, “You see, the human soul is very resilient. Cut the body in half — and the man croaks. But tear the soul apart — and it only becomes more pliable…” Lancelot’s killing of the Dragon did not free the people, which led to his realization, “We have to kill the dragon in each one of them.” Heinrich said, "It's not my fault, I was taught that way." Lancelot replied, "Everyone was, but why did you have to be first in class?"

Carl Jung described the shadow-side of man as the subconscious dark aspect to the personality. It is identified as irrational but prone to psychological projection as a vicarious function,⁶ and can be seen as moral deficiency in other people. The theory maintains the shadow includes, besides the personal shadow, the shadow of society’s values.⁷ Obviously, a shadow can not exist without the object of the shadow. The shadow is the counterfeit of the true object. God’s laws are written in the hearts of man.⁸ Individuals act as judge in the individual and societal behavioral court and the shadow is the guilty defendant prosecuted by God’s standards in the conscious mind of all mankind.

In mathematics, set theory, Δ is used to represent the symmetric difference (also known as the disjunctive union) of two sets. The disjunctive union is the set of elements which are in either of the sets, e.g. dimensions of love⁹ and justice etc., but not in their intersection. A nonbinding relationship, ∞ Δ non-elect or non-elect ⊄ ∞, so non-elect ∪ Satan/Dragon (anti-Christ/666)¹⁰ = non-sola Scriptura.¹¹ Mathematically, non-sola Scriptura is a vector space of the evil tensor product, ⊗.¹² Scripture is from the Holy Spirit¹³ and is thusly infallible¹⁴ and immutable.¹⁵ Sola Scriptura is heresy to scripturally defined heretics (Greek hairesis means a choice, disunion or ¬ ∪).¹⁶

Vasily Zhukovsky’s ¹⁷ (1808) Lyudmila is about a girl that curses God. The ballad indicates God hears absolutely everything that people say and think.¹⁸ He is just in punishing the young lady for the reproaches. If we confess our sins He is just to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.¹⁹ Because there is forgiveness with the Lord, He, properly, may be feared²⁰ and a relationship between His infiniteness and our human finiteness is possible. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,²¹ for those that hate knowledge choose to not fear Him,²² and before honor is humility.²³ Satan and many men do not fear God, not due to ignorance but because they are prideful.²⁴ Therefore, they shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices.²⁵

The Twelve was written by Alexandr Blok as a poetic response to the Russian Revolution of 1917. He blasphemously insinuated Jesus Himself led His twelve apostles in causing the murderous violence.

Tertullian in his 207 A.D. work Adversus Marcionem, (Against Marcion) attacked Paul the Apostle, calling him "the apostle of heretics." Tertullian declared that Marcion’s (of Sinope) denial of Christ’s humanity is detrimental to the Christian faith. Tertullian, in Latin, called Paul "haereticorum apostolus." He also stated, that based on records, Jesus never made Paul an apostle and Paul's claim to apostleship solely relies upon Paul's veracity. The reasoning follows that if Paul were a true apostle, he is still an inferior apostle because Paul submitted his doctrine to the other apostles.²⁶ Tertullian understood Apostle Paul to have suggested there would always be heretics,²⁷ and he presumed God had supplied scripture for their use.

Hans Lietzmann (1875-1942) said Tertullian meant that Paul's words had to be read with distrust as his words made him the "apostle of the heretics."²⁸ His logic continues in that Paul claimed to be an apostle, based on “great signs and wonders,”²⁹ but Jesus warned about the Pharisees and Paul was a Pharisee. Jesus warned about blind guides, and Paul was literally blinded on the road to Damascus.

Many believe Tertullian understood Apostle Paul’s suggestion that there would always be heretics³⁰ and he presumed God had supplied scripture for their use. Scripture is God’s statement of A and heretics reply, for various reasons, it is not A. They falsely make Scripture a relationship between finite human writers and finite human readers instead of a relationship between infinite God and human finite readers. In opposition to Jesus, their reasoning can be applied to Moses as historian to the heretics,³¹ David as psalmist to the heretics,³² Solomon as wise man to the heretics,³³ Isaiah as prophet to the heretics,³⁴ and John as the Revelation of Jesus Christ to the heretics³⁵ etc. etc. (see endnote 7 on Job). The Holy Spirit is known from Scripture, which says He inspired the Scriptures themselves—Holy Spirit ∪ Scripture. This leads to the blasphemous logical extension, ⊗, the Holy Spirit is God to the heretics—Holy Spirit ¬ ∪ Scripture.

Christian leaning Alexander Pushkin’s (1836) poem The Prophet quotes Isaiah 6:5-7.³⁶ In his The Stone Island Cycle, specifically Imitation of the Italian and Secular Power, he uses passages from the Gospels and in Exegi Monumentum he uses Solomon’s proverbs to not argue with a fool.³⁷

An acquaintance of Pushkin was the Hegelian agonistic Ivan Turgenev. The wealthy landowner’s first work, A Sportsman’s Notebook (1846-1851 series of small stories) observed in Death that “strange how death takes the Russian peasant…he dies as if he were going through a ceremony.”³⁸ The masterpiece specifically focused on a Russian Orthodox Church priest’s (non-sola Scriptura, ⊗) prevention of a man to marry his dead wife’s sister in My Neighbor Radilov.³⁹ Its general theme of injustices by government officials and wealthy landowners, such as The Estate Office, Two Landowners etc., is said to have contributed to Tsar Alexander II’s liberation of the serfs.⁴⁰

Turgenev’s (1862) Fathers and Sons began his promotion of the godless philosophy of nihilism, by saying “a nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever that principle is enshrined in.”⁴¹ He suggested that physics is the metaphysics for the new nihilist.⁴² As might be expected, his beliefs were strongly opposed on many occasions by the Christians Leo Tolstoy,⁴³ who was hated by Vladimir Lenin⁴⁴ the first national leader to implement abortion (child murder), and Fyodor Dostoevsky,⁴⁵ even though his writing ability may have been appreciated.⁴⁶ He that justifies the wicked and condemns the just is an abomination to the Lord.⁴⁷ Johann Goethe, a simple man of his times, wrote the following in 1820.⁴⁸

True Enough: To the Physicist
“Into the core of Nature”
--O Philistine--
“No earthly mind can enter.”
The maxim is fine:
But have the grace
To spare the dissenter,
Me and my kind.
We think: in every place
We’re at the center.
“Happy the mortal creature
To whom she shows no more
Than the outer rind,”
For sixty years I’ve heard your sort announce.
It makes me swear, though quietly;
To myself a thousand times I say:
All things she grants, gladly and lavishly:
Nature has neither core
Nor outer rind,
Being all things at once.
It’s yourself you should scrutinize to see
Whether you’re center or periphery.

The nihilistic views of Turgenev and others are not compatible with the societal freedoms seen in advanced governments based on biblical values from a relationship between its citizens and God. Dostoevsky warned of this decline in Russia and the embrace of nihilist communism beliefs, ⊗, in his Demons⁴⁹ written due to a jump in the suicide rate⁵⁰ and the communist’s murder of a fellow Christian named Ivan Ivanov. But such alarms were not heeded any more than in France (1789-1799)⁵¹ or than it is today in the US.⁵² The binary relationships between God and individuals is broken, resulting in immorality, and then the relationship between individuals is broken, resulting in violence.

Pierre Beaumarchais’⁵³ 1778 Marriage of Figaro⁵⁴ is the second play of the Figaro trilogy.⁵⁵ It was critical of the ancien régime. He used the character of Figaro to explain the practice droit du seigneur (lords being entitled to sex with the wives of their serfs).⁵⁶ Figaro defined the negative morality of politicians,⁵⁷ attacked censorship,⁵⁸ defended free markets,⁵⁹ and free speech.⁶⁰ He says their feudalist (Catholic) system makes one a serf or king by birth yet one’s wit actually makes the difference.⁶¹ It was banned by the authoritarian Catholic (non-sola Scriptura, ⊗) French King Louis XVI who followed in his Catholic father’s footsteps of imprisoning his opponents. Louis XVI was guillotined in 1793 by revolutionaries.⁶² The Germans refused to allow the play during their occupation of Paris in World War II and Mussolini also banned it in Italy.⁶³

Solzhenitsyn’s 1971 historical novel, August 1914, provides snapshots of the Russian state in 1914. Some people still considered Tolstoy a standard for morality,⁶⁴ even though Christian theology was being mixed with Jewish and Eastern beliefs etc.⁶⁵ The worship of Catholic priests was seen as inappropriate by Russian Orthodox (serf) members,⁶⁶ who were governed by the Orthodox Church calendar.⁶⁷ Suicide was correctly considered a sin⁶⁸ and rest on the Sabbath was promoted.⁶⁹ However, prayer was not believed to be helpful,⁷⁰ sacrilegious comments were being quoted,⁷¹ the educated believed their moral duty was to aid in the coming revolution,⁷² and, not surprisingly, the education system supported revolution against Scripture.⁷³ Workers were striking, businesses were closing,⁷⁴ and inflation was increasing.⁷⁵ (Note: All levels of complex societies contain examples of other levels. The issue here is to indicate the shift from one dominate societal level to another.⁷⁶ As an intellectual, writer, Christian, and former Russian political prisoner, Solzhenitsyn has a unique perspective on the Russian society.

In Solzhenitsyn’s 1964 novel For the Good of the Cause, a Russian school was taken and used for a scientific institute. He examined what is right and wrong. An old Soviet communist leader demonstrated the point when he said, as a propagandist, the (Russian) communist goal was to be the most just society on earth.⁷⁷

The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, is an outline of what the communists predictively did after the Russian Revolution. The first place accounts were compiled by Solzhenitsyn and thirty-six writers, including Maxim Gorky, often quoted by Marx,⁷⁸ who was reportedly the first in Russian literature (1934) to evilly glorify slave labor in his book on The I.V. Stalin White Sea - Baltic Sea Canal.⁷⁹ They are as follows: create a government science on how to search political prisoners for arrest,⁸⁰ conduct mass arrests, murder political enemies, loot churches,⁸¹ take over church business, media helps by not covering events,⁸² establish informer network, close Red Cross, arrest intelligentsia,⁸³ arrest students,⁸⁴ arrest engineers, trains not operating, shortage of fuel, power outages,⁸⁵ hold public trials,⁸⁶ arrest nonorthodox church sects, arrest Baptists, arrest teachers,⁸⁷ tax businesses until they bankrupt and take over their operation (e.g. barbershops, tailors, stove repair etc.), confiscate gold,⁸⁸ arrest non-informers, arrest people that refuse to work on the Sabbath, establish new economic plans,⁸⁹ establish a new crime code,⁹⁰ define terrorism with laws beyond bombings etc. that included speech (being implemented in the US see endnote 107 and 132),⁹¹ enlarge secret police/surveillance force,⁹² give arrest quotas for police and the military,⁹³ arrest workers for accidents or equipment failures, arrest people based on their names,⁹⁴ --after World War II-- arrest girls that date foreigners, arrest Spanish speakers,⁹⁵ arrest people that praise American technology or their free way of life, arrest more religious people, arrest lab workers such as geneticists and plant breeders etc.,⁹⁶ systematically torture political prisoners for the delight of seeing human suffering,⁹⁷ interrogate for the purpose of fabricating evidence and getting false confessions, accuse people of giving false names to government officials (already a US law),⁹⁸ use medical doctors to diminish prisoner health,⁹⁹ use women interrogators to shock virtuous prisoners (especially with their use of obscene language; which is common in US entertainment),¹⁰⁰ publically shame enemies,¹⁰¹ establish new society heroes¹⁰² etc. etc. Solzhenitsyn began the work with the wise saying, “Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye, forget the past and you will lose both eyes.”¹⁰³ (By 2021, many of those activities have been or are being implemented in the US by both Democrat and Republican politicians. Very soon there will be no place on earth to find physical refuge by future Solzhenitsyn’s. All US military personnel have sworn an oath, which does not expire, to protect the US constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. In June 2021, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told elected US congressional members of the House Armed Services Committee that he was going to continue to indoctrinate US military with anti-constitutional Critical Race Theory, CRT [see endnote 137 etc.], against their demands for him to cease. The human right and duty to defend one’s self and others against such evil in the inevitable forthcoming US civil armed conflict is mapped in the tensor fields of the strategic battle space.¹⁰⁴ The tensor product may be used to develop mathematical models that can predict the evolution of interface morphology.)

Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle looked at special Soviet scientific and technical institutes staffed, from false arrests,¹⁰⁵ with intelligencia political prisoners called zeks. The institutes or prisons are called sharashka, which means a sinister enterprise based on bluff and deceit.¹⁰⁶ Language after revolutions, French and Russian, adjust to the new societal system.¹⁰⁷ The persecuted church¹⁰⁸ and state leaders will attempt to find a terminal velocity equilibrium of existence due to the displacement of past cultural roles.¹⁰⁹ “One should not try to reconcile the white rose of truth with the black toad of villainy.”¹¹⁰ Christian (Divine spiritual/physical freedom) socialism (demonic spiritual/physical slavery; see endnote 134) is an oxymoron. There can only be slavish manmade ethical socialism.¹¹¹ The eternal outcome of 0, 1 can be seen below in the game theory matrix (see the matrix outcomes on page 7 and in endnotes 137 and 143 which are based on A can not be both A and not A at the same time and ∞ > finiteness¹¹²).

Decades after the Russian revolution and as many as thirty-five million murders of its citizens by the government, Solzhenitsyn’ 1974 essay Live Not by Lies observed “They put on trial anybody they want, and they put sane people in asylums…We have been so hopelessly dehumanized that for today’s modest ration of food we are willing to abandon all our principles, our souls, and all the efforts of our predecessors and all the opportunities for our descendants…The scorn of Pushkin should be directed to us: ‘Why should cattle have the gifts of freedom? Their heritage from generation to generation is the belled yoke and the lash.”¹¹³

Cancer Ward, by Solzhenitsyn, details Russian censorship of writers like himself.¹¹⁴ Schools excluded the world famous works of Dostoevsky. Some authors, considered to be ideological saboteurs,¹¹⁵ could not even have their names mentioned until they died. Pushkin words on liebestod, in his Boris Godunov, came true, “They are capable of loving only the dead.”¹¹⁶ Pictures were not allowed in classrooms if they contained a portion of a church. The memories of all beauty were purged.¹¹⁷ College students were assigned monitors who forced them to volunteer to work, as in the US today, in approved tasks, such as collective farms on the Sabbath.¹¹⁸ Most Soviets complied. They were intelligent but just wanted to live (righteous self + unrighteous shadow self = unrighteous cowardly self, but, unrighteous cowardly self + repentance + Holy Spirit = righteous boldness of the elect. For example James, Peter, Paul, Polycarp, and Patrick Henry etc. who reportedly said “Give me liberty or give me death” at St. Johns Church 23 March, 1775 (with Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in attendance)¹¹⁹ etc.

Pushkin wrote, “In our vile times… Man was, whatever his element, Either tyrant, or traitor, or prisoner!”¹²⁰ In the sixteenth century, Francis Bacon told of the doctrine of idols, which lead to madness.¹²¹ It says people do not live by pure experience but also by prejudices, which are idols. Those idols are authoritative opinions of others which mankind likes to accept as a guide when interpreting something he hasn’t personally experienced. This is widely seen in an over willingness to accept arguments of (so-called¹²²) science. It may be summed up as the voluntary acceptance of other people’s errors.¹²³ When Nikita Khrushchev became the Soviet communist Party Leader, he called on all Young Communists to fight those opposed to growing corn in north Russia. Of course, the cold climate proved to prevent the growing of corn and ended his foolish scheme.¹²⁴ The anti-Pushkin and Tolstoy poet and supporter of the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Mayakovsky shot himself in 1930.¹²⁵ Education does not make one smart. Intelligence comes from life¹²⁶ and wisdom comes from God. Wisdom cries out from the top of high places and speaks of truth.¹²⁷ Those that hate wisdom love death—liebestod.¹²⁸ The demonic stayed in a graveyard of death until Jesus delivered him from liebestod and the swine later possessed by his demons ran into the sea to their death.¹²⁹

Donald Lutz, political science professor at the University of Houston, wrote (1980) From Covenant to Constitution in American Political Thought and (1988) The Origins of American Constitutionalism.¹³⁰ He explained Founding Americans (1760-1805), in their political writings, most frequently cited French philosopher Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, English jurist William Blackstone, and British philosopher John Locke who often referenced biblical principles. The Bible was the most frequently cited book, in the political literature of that American founding era, surpassing all the secular writers (34% of the total direct quotes, largely from sermon/pamphlets, by the Founding Fathers were, not surprisingly, from the Bible). Ultimately, sola-Scriptura had an obvious influence on early Americans in the development of the US Constitution.¹³¹

In June 2021, the US Catholic (non-sola Scriptura, ⊗) president¹³² issued a 32 page dossier titled National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.¹³³ It identifies anyone that disagrees with his authoritarian government policies as an enemy terrorist (p. 6). It then seeks to limit the availability of his enemies ideas online (a clear violation of the constitutional right to free speech and religious freedom) and limit gun rights (a clear violation of the constitutional right to bear arms, and by necessity ending private property,¹³⁴ and unlawful search and seizure) (p. 19). It promotes the funding and implementing of government approved critical thinking skills to make user resilience to government identified online disinformation and misinformation by the US government agencies of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State etc. (p. 20). In a De Tocqueville sense, America has ceased to be good and thus has ceased to be great¹³⁵ (see the eternal outcome 0, 1 below).

During June 15-16, 2021, the Southern Baptist Convention (sola-Scriptura) met in Nashville, Tennessee.¹³⁶ It opposed the US government’s program of Critical Race Theory, CRT, (proceeding 27), where there is no equality of US citizens (a clear violation of US founding documents) and the descendants of Shem are specifically considered by the US government to be treated inferior to descendants of Ham.¹³⁷ It also opposed the US government’s policy of promoting medical puberty blockers for children that reject their biological XX or XY chromosome reality (proceeding 80) and the US government’s promotion of murdering unborn babies called abortions (proceedings 78, 97). By the standards of the US government’s 2021 National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, all the tens of millions of US Baptists, and all the tens of millions of other US citizens that share their biblical beliefs, are to be identified as terrorists and treated as such by US government agencies’ several million employees. The prophet Elisha (Hebrew meaning God is salvation) wept when he understood what Hazael (Hebrew meaning God sees) was going to do to Israel.¹³⁸

Supporters of anti-Christ revolutions, ⊗, are not completely naive in thinking the ruling elite will not eventually target them for imprisonment and murder. They relish fighting, approaching the irrational pathology of erotomania, a physical authority since they can not fight and win against infinite God whom they blaspheme, ⊗.¹³⁹ Leader of the French Revolution, Maximilien de Robespierre was responsible for the period of many massacres and public executions known as the Reign of Terror. He created a deistic religion called The Cult of the Supreme Being (French, Culte de l'Être suprême) and declared in 1791, "True religion consists in punishing for the happiness of all those who disturb society.”¹⁴⁰ Robespierre was executed by his comrades in the Revolutionary Tribunal in 1794 followed by joyous applause and cries that lasted fifteen minutes. In Faust by Johann Goethe, the character Mephistopheles,¹⁴¹ a demon, said, “Everything that exists deserves to annihilated.”¹⁴² The biographers of Karl Marx,¹⁴³ the demonic inspiration for the Russian Revolution, say that was his favorite (nihilist) quote. Marx also liked the 1789 motto of the French journal Les Revolutions de Paris. The motto by its editor Elisée Loustalot is, “The great appear great in our eyes only because we kneel. Let us rise!”¹⁴⁴ Georg Herwegh, a German failed seminary student and failed soldier, was a poet (member of the German March Revolution of 1848-1849) who believed poetry was the first step to (communist) political action. As a friend of Marx and Engels,¹⁴⁵ Herwegh wrote, “Until our hand turns to ashes, Shall it let drop the sword? We have loved long enough; Now, finally, we wish to hate.”¹⁴⁶ Without God, as Dostoevsky noted in The Brothers Karamazov, crime is inevitable.

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) is quoted as having said, “How easy it is to make people believe a lie and how hard it is to undo that work again!”¹⁴⁷ When mankind is determined to be sinfully governed by finite flesh until death,¹⁴⁸ God’s Spirit will no longer restrain him.¹⁴⁹ In the end times the restrainer will be removed;¹⁵⁰ a-pneúma-katechō.¹⁵¹

In closing, when asking, “O, God, how long shall the adversary reproach? Shall the (liebestod) enemies blaspheme thy name forever?”¹⁵² just remember, “there is an end and your hope will not be cut off.”¹⁵³ They will say there is no help for you in God.¹⁵⁴ “Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called, and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.”¹⁵⁵ Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season to reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables.”¹⁵⁶ I salute my fellow prisoners and fellow laborers in Christ Jesus, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.¹⁵⁷

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