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How do Catholics respond to the Roman Catholic Church being referred to as the sea beast?
How do catholics respond to the Roman Catholic Church being referred to as the sea beast?
Prophecy is more than not only understood only after the events predicted come to pass.
Thus, Catholics would ...
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How do Catholics respond to the Roman Catholic Church being referred to as the sea beast?
In supplement to Ken Graham’s very well put together criticism, I would like to point out perhaps the most fatal flaw in your argument, namely that the Vatican (or Rome, as we can put it) doesn’t sit ...
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Do any denominations teach that the Pope is an antichrist?
Answering from an American Reformed perspective:
The Westminster Confession of Faith (along with its accompanying Larger and Shorter Catechisms) is, to varying degrees, the "official" ...
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Does anyone remember prophecy of beast with thousand names or possible Mandela effect?
I've heard the phrase before. There is no reference in the Bible that states it or that can even construe it. However, the idea is popular in some end-times circles. It almost always refers to ...
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According to Anglicanism, is the Pope the Antichrist?
No.
The Article of the Westminster Confession quoted in the question clearly identifies the Pope as the Antichrist. However the Westminster Confession is not a doctrinal standard of the Anglican ...
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How central is the claim the pope is the antichrist to Protestant theology?
The idea that the Pope is the Antichrist is very much a fringe belief in Protestantism.
While historically many reformers accused the Pope of being the Antichrist, this is no longer the belief of the ...
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How central is the claim the pope is the antichrist to Protestant theology?
The claim that the papacy or the pope was the Anti-Christ was important to the early Reformers. Theologically, their focus was largely on issues such as the role of faith and scripture in salvation, ...
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Is the Pope the Antichrist or the spirit of the Antichrist?
If I say 'B is that A' it does not exclude the possibility of also saying 'C is that A'.
That the Savoy Declaration (and others that followed it) states the Pope of Rome as being 'Antichrist' does ...
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What do Jehovah's Witnesses believe about the activities of the antichrist in these "last days"?
From the official web-site of the Watchtower Society, I read the article, “Who is the Antichrist?” as posted by them at http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20150601/who-is-the-antichrist/ ...
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Does the false prophet cause the spirit of Satan to move into the image to give it life?
It is Satan himself who causes the arising of the beast from the sea, the beast from the earth, the false prophet, and the making of the image. Satan gives rise to those means of getting his wicked ...
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How can one identify the Antichrist; can he be a Bishop opposing the Papacy in relation to 1 John 2:19-20?
Spiritual revolt using Church's authority
Cardinal Manning, the most prominent father at the First Vatican Council who was responsible for the definition on papal infallibility, said in his Temporal ...
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If Satan is unable to become incarnate will he possess and control the Antichrist
As Christ is manifest in His Body on earth (the Church) so will the created spirit (the entity known as Diabolos and Satan and Serpent) seek to be manifested, not in one human being, but in all of ...
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How central is the claim the pope is the antichrist to Protestant theology?
Thanks for clarifying the time scale, i.e. up to the late 1800’s, and for attaching that link which explains what Lutheran’s used to believe. I say “used to believe” because it seems that ...
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Was St. John referring to schismatic bishops in describing the Antichrist in 1 John 2:18-19?
The text in question does not mention the status in the Church of those who ended up leaving it. That first century warning is open, not restricted. John says "many antichrists have come" - ...
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How do Catholics respond to the Roman Catholic Church being referred to as the sea beast?
This is of course my simple opinion. Not an official doctrine or anything like that.
An initial argument. If "the devil" wanted to destroy the church, would he use a random sect from a ...
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Popes Benedict XVI or Pope St. John Paul II on the subject of the Antichrist and the end times?
St. John Paul II once stated that we are now nearing the final confrontation.
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think ...
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Is the Antichrist supposed to be a human or a demon?
The term antichrist is not a good fit for the first Beast, the Beast from the sea. But better corresponds to the second beast/false prophet (false Messiah) that rises from the earth/land ("Ha ...
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Is the Antichrist supposed to be a human or a demon?
So the antichrist in Revelation is not human but a beast, although there are antichrists who are humans that rejected God.
1 John 2:18
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that ...
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What is the Scriptural evidence for the Protestant view that the AntiChrist will be Jewish?
What is the Scriptural evidence for the Protestant view that the AntiChrist will be Jewish?
This is not a view that is shared uniquely by some Protestants. Many Catholics, Orthodox and other ...
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What does the "second coming of Christ" mean?
Rhetorician has given an excellent answer to your question. There are many different views about the second coming of Christ but if I may, I would like to add a few points taken from the Bible.
The ...
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What does the "second coming of Christ" mean?
Without getting into an elaborate explanation about the second coming of Christ, I'll say simply that you could just as accurately have called the "second coming of Christ" the second coming ...
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What does the "second coming of Christ" mean?
Read Matthew 24:30(ESV) - "Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven ...
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If Satan is unable to become incarnate will he possess and control the Antichrist
Satan, The Beast, and The False Prophet are 3 different personalities that are also the same entity just as The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost.
A common tactic of Satan is to imitate or ...
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How central is the claim the pope is the antichrist to Protestant theology?
OP: So, it looks like until fairly recently (late 1800s, early 1900s) the pope being the antichrist was pretty important for most Protestants. Was that the case?
As noted throughout the answers, it ...
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What is a brief history on the idea that the Pope is the Antichrist?
The papacy is an office, not a person. Antichrist (capital "A") is a single person, though there can be many antichrists (lowercase "a"), those who are against Christ. So, the ...
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How can one identify the Antichrist; can he be a Bishop opposing the Papacy in relation to 1 John 2:19-20?
How can one identify the Antichrist, can he be a Bishop opposing the Papacy in relation to 1 John 2:19-20?
Impossible to say as we do not know who he is as of yet. The Early Church Fathers believe ...
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What is the Catholic understanding of Antichrist?
The Antichrist is a single person, but anyone opposed to Christ can also be called an antichrist:
Sacræ Theologiæ Summa IVB on the Last Things, §264 "The coming of the Antichrist", PDF pp. ...
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Are there any Catholic saints or notable theologians that have interpreted 666 in the manner as explained below?
The church father Irenaeus (130-202) said there were many names that could be produced from the number, and he speculates about the name using the “Greek fashion of calculation”, using the value of ...
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Is the idea that a Pope may be anti-Christ, the same as basically saying the chair of St. Peter is vacant?
No. If the anti-Christ were to become pope, all that would mean is that the anti-Christ is the pope.
There have been numerous valid, bad popes throughout history. There were popes in the middle ages ...
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How central is the claim the pope is the antichrist to Protestant theology?
Because you ask, "How central IS the claim...", this answer will be confined to current views on the matter within Protestantism generally speaking. It simply is not possible to do justice ...
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