Any relation between the pope and the anti-christ???

Question

I've heard this said afew times, and I was just wondering if anyone could give me any reasons people may think that. (nothing against Catholics) Please, I'm not trying to affend anyone, lets just have a healthy, peaceful debate.

Answer 1

Pope = Latin for "Father".
Pope's title : Vicar of Christ ("representative of Christ" [better explanation: to "live 'vicar'iously" through someone is to have your dreams fulfilled in that person... to act as if their achievements are yours as well, since you pushed them into doing those achievements]).
Official Papal doctrine : any claim made while on the throne is infallible.
Official Catholic symbol : Papal crown, two keys
Official church stand : that ecumenism (a bringing together all religions) is a good thing, and has embraced pagan celebrations, acknowledged the "usefulness" of the animal sacrifice of African natives, and the Pope has kissed the Koran.
Interesting note : The treaty that created the U.N. was started in Rome. One symbol of the E.U. is Europa (a goddess riding the bull she had sex with)

Compare:
Biblical doctrine : the only person who is deserving of the title of "father" (outside of a literal dad) is God.
Antichrist = Greek for "against or replacing Christ"
The Antichrist's goal : to set himself up in a rebuilt Temple and be worshipped as God
The doctrine of Papal infallibility has caused a great many atrocities to be caused in the name of Christ, and while Christ has said, "Put away your sword, for those who live by the sword shall die by it as well" and "Thou shalt not kill", the Pope has said, "Go to war, and reclaim Jerusalem for God and Church" and turned a blind eye to Nazi Germany... things that are against Christ's words
Official Christian symbols : the yoke, the fish, the cross, the empty tomb, the anchor, the tongue of flame
Plans of the Antichrist : For the purposes of peace, he will make war. Will sign a peace treaty intended to last 7 years, but will be broken after three and a half. All unsaved people will follow him.
Interesting Note : The harlot of Revelation sits upon "the seven hills", a common description of Rome that was used back then and still today. The harlot rides upon a great beast (albeit not a bull, but a multi-headed leopard).

I neither endorse the possibility of a Pope being *the* Antichrist, but neither do I dismiss it. Only time will tell.

Answer 2

The claim that the pope is the Antichrist has been part of anti-Catholic rhetoric since the Reformation, when it was needed to justify the Protestant Reformers’ desire to leave the Catholic Church.

Thus the Lutheran Book of Concord states, "[T]he pope is the real Antichrist who has raised himself over and set himself against Christ . . . Accordingly, just as we cannot adore the devil himself as our lord or God, so we cannot suffer his apostle, the pope or Antichrist, to govern us as our head or lord" (Smalcald Articles 2:4:10, 14).

The Presbyterian and Anglican Westminster Confession states, "There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can the pope of Rome in any sense be the head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and that son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the church against Christ, and all that is called God" (25:6).

To make the prophecies of the Antichrist fit the pope, some even claimed that "the temple of God" in which the Antichrist pretends to be God (2 Thess. 2:4) is the Vatican.

Although the Fathers of the Church speculated on the Antichrist in various ways, they would never have agreed. They showed the temple to be the Jewish temple, rebuilt by Antichrist in Jerusalem. Rather than the bishop of Rome, the early Fathers identified the Antichrist as a government official—a king coming to power in the ruins of the Roman Empire. He would probably be Jewish, possibly from the tribe of Dan. And most importantly, rather than claiming like the pope to be the vicar or emissary of Jesus Christ, he would claim that Jesus was not the Christ but that he was instead. He would then seduce many of the Jewish people by attempting to fulfill the political aspirations they held for the Messiah.

"[T]he whole time of your faith will not profit you unless you are made complete in the last time. For in the last days false prophets and corrupters shall be multiplied, and sheep shall be turned into wolves . . . and then shall the deceiver of the world appear, pretending to be the Son of God, and [he] shall do signs and wonders, and the earth shall be delivered into his hands" (Didache 16:3-4 [A.D. 70]).

Answer 3

Revalation is a story of the future not the past spamandham. The antichrist will be the head of a one world religion that all will be required to submitt to.Only one religion in the world DEMANDS that all must submitt or die.That religion is Islam.So I would think it is possible that the antichrist would be a muslim.The antichrist will be called a great peace maker.Islam claims to be peaceful while at the same time murdering anyone that opposes them.So no the Pope would not be it.

Answer 4

Yes peaceful, since they are on the seventh pope Rev17-10 -11and the eight king is the anti christ , this started at the end of WWI.1 when ever they opened the papacy for business

Answer 5

Yes there is prophecy stating that there will be one more pope, and that pope will support the Anti-Christ.

Answer 6

Paul (Saul of Tarsus) has been accused of being the "anti-Christ."

The Trinity and Catholic doctrine are based on the teachings (writings) of Paul.

Which means the pope is teaching anti-Christian doctrine, and is an/the anti-Christ.

Answer 7

Martin Luther was not the first person to claim that the pope is the anti-Christ. John Wycliffe came to the same conclusion some 200 years before Luther did. Unlike Luther, Wycliffe had everything to loose and nothing to gain from proclaiming this, but he did it anyway because that is what he believed. Let us examine the facts.

What is the beast (the anti-Christ)? It is a religious power that rises out of Europe after the fall of Rome (and 3 of the tribes of the fallen empire are taken out) that acts as sovereign nation. It has much wealth and wants to change the laws of God.

"And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. “(Daniel 7:24 - 25 KJV)

The history of Europe settles the matter. There were 10 kingdoms that formed directly after the fall of Rome. After three kingdoms were taken out (the Vandals, Lombards, and Huns), the "Bishop of Rome" rose to power and formed what we now know as the Roman Catholic Church and this position is now known as the pope. With this power, the pope has changed God's times and laws. Many Christians no longer observe the Sabbath (God's time and God’s law) because the pope has instituted Sunday worship; the Roman Catechism even has a different set of Ten Commandments in it than the Bible's. It is also obvious that this kingdom represented by the little horn is different from all the others. The Vatican is a nation that has great wealth (the little horn wares an expensive crown earlier in Daniel chapter 7) but is very small (like a little horn among big ones) and is wholly ruled by a religious leader unlike any other nation in Europe today. The Vatican is a nation because the USA has an ambassador to the Vatican.

There are even more clues to point to the papal system as being the anti-Christ.

"And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast." (Revelation 13:3 KJV)

The pope was taken out of power and made prisoner (wounded) in 1798 by Napoleon. But, the pope was miraculously healed from his deadly wound in 1929, by Premier Mussolini if Italy who gave the pope all his power back!

The whole world has wondered after the pope. Just look at everyone that attended the funeral of the late John Paul II - leaders of almost every nation in the world!

Also, we find this of the anti-Christ. " And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. (Revelation 13:5 - 6 KJV)

What is blasphemy? "The act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God." (American Heritage Dictionary)

Does the pope blaspheme?

"Against this background of love towards Holy Church, 'the pillar and bulwark of the truth' (1 Tim 3:15), we readily understand the devotion of Saint Francis of Assisi for 'the Lord Pope', the daughterly outspokenness of Saint Catherine of Siena towards the one whom she called 'sweet Christ on earth'" (Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation VITA CONSECRATA, (On The Consecrated Life And Its Mission In The Church And In The World), March 25, 1996.)

"The Pope is of so great dignity, and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were God. and the vicar of God." (Ferraris Ecclesiastical dictionary)

"All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that He is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope." (On the Authority of the Councils, book 2, chapter 17)

"The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth." (Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, "Cities Petrus Bertanous")

""To believe that our Lord God the Pope has not the power to decree as he is decreed, is to be deemed heretical." (the Gloss "Extravagantes" o.f Pope John XXII *** inter, Tit. XIV, Cap. IV. Ad Callem Sexti Decretalium, Paris, 1685)

I would say he dose! The pope also claimes to be able to forgive sins. The bible clearly says that this is blasphamy.

"Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" (Mark 2:7 KJV)

I think the papal system matches up with the anti-Christ too much to be a coincidence.

Answer 8

the pope is the anti christ

Answer 9

Nero was the anti-christ. Revelation is a story of the past, not the future.

Answer 10

yes, go to 666man.net and it will explain it all