Lorarose:
I’m confused about exactly WHICH pope is the anti-christ.
I mean…Luther made this claim too - but it turned out THAT pope was not the antichrist.
Ever since then every pope has been accused of the same thing…but NONE of them turned out to be the antichrist.
It doesn’t look like JPII has enough gas in his tank to pull off the whole anti-christ world denomination thing…so it’s highly unlikely HE is the antichrist either.
So…is it the NEXT pope who will FINALLY be the anti-christ?
Or is ALL the popes who get to share this title?
This is really getting very silly and very old isn’t it?
Well, the problem happens to be that these people read books written by Dave Hunt who is known for claiming that the Catholic Church is the Whore of Babylon and the Pope is the AntiChrist. But they never do go and check the information that is available to them in the Scripture. I will get back to this point about not doing as claimed - being like the Bereans.
It is the classic anti-Catholic thing. In this case we have Doufus making all sorts of anti-Catholic remarks, never supports the remarks from reliable sources, and thinks that the Bible is God. I mean he is
smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/4/4_17_4.gif to a book that consists of paper, ink and two covers. Yes, Scripture is the Word of God. However, Scripture is best described as that which is divinely inspired but written by human authors complete with the human biases of those authors. Only when we realise this do we discover the truly divine inspiration within the Scripture.
The Scripture identifies the hallmarks of the AntiChrist. He is the “man of sin”, the “lawless man”. Scripture mentions that there are many anti-christs. Why? Because these are the people who do the bidding of Satan.
It is Satan who is he AntiChrist, not the Pope, not Hitler, not Saddam Hussein,
smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/1/1_4_34.gif and not even Osama Bin Laden (even though most of us have other ideas on that score)
Maggie