If Christ just brought Christianity, Wouldnt the Antichrist just destroy it?

Question

If the antichrist is the opposite of jesus then surely he wouldnt destroy the world because jesus didnt create the world in the first place.

Answer 1

You got your premises wrong and show little undertanding of christian theology/cosmology. The anti-Christ is not the opposite of Jesus in the sense of negation. Rather, he is an adversary--a sense of challenge. He wants to destroy what Jesus has created and keeps. These include christians, all human beings and the earth as created. The Anti-Christ challenges Jesus for the loyalty of all human beings and for the control of the world. Jesus did create the earth in the first place. The world (conceptually different from the earth) is the organising principle within which human beings live in the earth. There is a sense in which even though the earth is the Lord's, satan controls the world-i.e the organising principle. Ultimately, the plan of the anti-Christ is to destroy those who will remain loyal to Jesus and control the lives of those who are on his own side in such a way that they will remain ever loyal to him. He is threatened by the incredible love of Jesus, His forebearance and the transforming power of His grace. To the extent that the Anti-Christ is in control of the world, he will not seek its destruction. But as it becomes clear that God who created the earth and all inhabitants therein, makes a claim on it, the Anti-Christ will do all he can-including destroying everything--rather than lose his control over people and the world--in this challenge of Jesus. The Anti-Christ is that mean. The absolute dictatator

Answer 2

The anti-Christ would like nothing better than to destroy the world and all of the people in it. But he doesn't have that much power. God created the world and Jesus was right there with Him when He did it. The anti-Christ is not the opposite of Christ. He will attempt to prove that he is Christ. You don't portray an opposite by mimicking the true.

Answer 3

Jesus did create the world.

John 1:1-5
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood[a] it.

Jesus - the Word made flesh - created everything with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

The Anti-Christ of Revelation wants to set himself up as the ruler of the world and does not care one whit about those over whom he wants to rule. He will try to stamp out Christianity, but will not succeed. The world will be at the brink of destruction when Jesus will come and end the Anti-Christ's rule, throwing him and the False Prophet into the Lake of Fire, but binding Satan for a time.

Answer 4

We disagree. Jesus was involved with the creation of the world. This world belongs to God. The antichrist wants to destroy all people.

Answer 5

Who told you the antichrist is going to destroy the world? God created the world and God will be the one to destroy it. Before you ask, no this is not evil of God. He tells us all through His Word that the world is going to be destroyed because of sin and He also tells us what we need to do to escape this horrible destruction

Answer 6

Actually...Christ DID create the world in the first place.

Colossians 1:16, speaking of Jesus Christ:

16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or cprincipalities, or powers: all things were dcreated by him, and for him:

:-)

Answer 7

As neither person or entity exists or ever existed this is a redundant question.