A "truth" so obvious it requires a 24/7/365 propaganda er apologetics machine to keep the folks in line with the settled doctrines.
This generation is that generation.
Jesus was up against a religious establishment owned and operated by those who reasoned amongst themselves instead of inquiring of the Lord. The Gospel accounts are filled with Jesus' encounters with the drive-by media of his day - experts always at the ready with their Gotcha! questions, misinterpretations of his words, and all manner of assorted treachery and subterfuge.
We can see that plainly today with the ongoing saga of President Donald Trump fighting against all the forces of hell. It's a living parable in real-time.
So when the MSM says in unison that the President is unfit, unstable, corrupt and all the rest, why it's the Gospel truth! /s They all have the same talking points and marching orders. President Trump refuses to play by the Establishment rules, and now the peasants are getting uppity, questioning the well-oiled propaganda machine. He's got to go lest the entire system come crashing down.
People can read the political weather but not the signs of the times in their own church atmosphere. The real Jesus is that incorrigible climate-denier who refuses to get with the program.
Jesus had a lot to say to and about the Pharisees and Sadducees, nothing much of anything good. They were blind and deaf, continually misunderstanding his speech and doubling down on their accusations. Everything Jesus said was being run through the filter of their dogma, so from their perspective, Jesus was a dangerous heretic who was violating the Torah every which way to Sunday. His attempts to correct their misunderstandings never took hold, because they had already made up their minds. No way to reason with folks like that.
The modern religious establishment says that Jesus is God, and quotes the wisdom of the Pharisees and Sadducees as proof, because if *they* thought he was claiming to be God, then there you go.
Because we all know that CNN is the most trusted name in news.
Everything Jesus said is run through the filter of trinity dogma, so from that perspective, Jesus is God along with hundreds of other "proof" texts and noone dare question. At least the religious experts of his day who misundersood his words, knew that a claim of deity was blasphemy. What they didn't do was turn it into a statement of faith. Jesus is the man who has been subjected to the greatest character assassination in all of human history, by the same folks who persecuted and murdered *Jews* being Jesus-killers. The further irony is that now the blame is generally placed on Rome.
Jesus is definitely the anti-establishment type. It's the Establishment Jesus that is the fake Jesus. Explains why nobody is going to recognize him, at least those who occupy their days sniffing for doctrinal error and defending fake news. There are many people in churches, though, who are simply doing what Jesus instructed: loving the Lord and loving their fellow man with all their hearts, in spite of the dogmatic types and the false teachers and hangers-on. Like Joseph or Moses spending all those years in Egypt, yet coming out uncorrupted.
If the Messiah believed in the trinity doctrine, he never recognize himself. Neither would anyone else. Well that's one way he could go about his work without anyone pestering him. He could even be sitting in the next pew, singing Gospel songs.
The theological establishment is going down. The truth sets people free. Jesus said, "Your sins are forgiven, so you can get up and walk now." (Oh boy, that wasn't an exact quote. What's the rap on that?)
Never a shortage of kindly teachers (wolves) preaching that no one is ever humble or contrite enough, because everyone is a hopeless sinner always. While proclaiming liberty, those teachers have quite a list of sins at the ready for an instant beatdown. Yup, the only thing to do is trust Jesus to mow your lawn and clean the bathrooms.
The trinity doctrine is like disability, or crack. If people go off of it, they'd have to get a job and do something useful for a change.
"Deny" the trinity, and all the established doctrines built on top of it come crashing down as well. And we can't have that.
Or a house with 50 layers of paint. Nobody wants paint-stripper Jesus, at least not the folks selling all the paint supplies, or who paint for a living.
All the aggressive marketing campaigns between major brands would grind to a halt, the entire business of religion would go belly up just like that. No more profit.
No wonder the one holding the key of David said he'd have a new name.
“I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins” (John 8:24).
“Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things” (John 8:28).