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The Christian stuff was put in because monks wrote the version we have down. It's glaringly obvious because the Christian stuff breaks the narrative and goes "oh by the way praise the almighty". You can cut all the Christian stuff out and nothing changes in the core story. Also, the dragon isn't supposed to be a Biblical metaphor, it's more like Fafnir or the world-serpent. There's even a theory that the dragon was a slave/thief who turned into the dragon, which is just like Fafnir.