Is it possible that the Catholic Church was is the Anti-Christ?

Question

Giving the accounts of the Roman Catholic Church to suppress any the Bible's publication into other languages plus suppressing the movement of free thought, is it possible the Anti-Christ is not a man but the church's systematic processes?

Answer 1

Uh, no. People today don't understand that it's only been during the last 50 or so years that the mass public has had access to education. I can tell you stories as recent as my grandparents who didn't even reach middle school. My point is that the further back you go in history, you will find the mass population was largely illiterate. Plus, before the invention of the printing press, books were very expensive. Usually it was the Catholic monks who had to copy a book by hand if you wanted one, and that sometimes took years. For this reason, books were not widely available to the general public. Also,what good would it have been to give someone a bible if they couldn't read it? It's only been in recent years (5 or so decades) that public education has become widespread and nearly everyone is literate. Back then, people depended on the Church for their education in the bible because it was the only place where they could learn it, and that was done orally, since they probably couldn't get a bible and couldn't read it even if they had one.

Anyway, hopefully this simple history lesson helps to answer your question. God bless.

Answer 2

the Roman Catholic church is only one branch of Catholicism. The earliest Catholics are the Maronites, who are from Antioch. The Eastern church has always been closer to the Holy Land than the Western church. As for the anti-Christ, I do not know how he will come about. I have heard prophecies about a middle-eastern nun getting jiggidy with Satan, but I do not know if this is going to be true, or just a fanciful notion. Maybe the anti-Christ is already born and living amoung us.My sister thought he was born in the 60's or 70's, but considering the number of the beast, he may not have been on the scene until 1998, (which is 3 X 666)

Answer 3

That whole supposition that the Catholic Church ever "suppress[ed] any [of] the Bible's publication into other languages" or was ever "suppressing the movement of free thought" is erroneous. If the Catholic Church must change its Orthodoxy to match the free thought of individuals, then Truth itself can be changed, and so can GOD.

As often as a new language presented itself as a country's main medium of expression, an edition of the Bible was privided by the Catholic Church. Luther's rendering was preceded by earlier German versions, and before those, by Gothic, and other versions, according to the language of the times. Even Martin Luther once put his foot in his mouth by admitting that he - of an unpriviledged family - had learned the Scriptures since childhood!

The Church examined secretly produced renditions of the Bible, to prevent a few individuals from mistranslating, independant of educated peer review, to peddle their heretical mistranslations to the uneducated masses, using their works to bend the thoughts of others in a controlling unorthodox way. Even from versions they found imperfect, they kept certain well translated phrases. They burned what was not compliant with the original Texts of Scripture, and redistributed what they confiscated, and found acceptably translated. And they provided Bibles in the meantime, while they examined the confiscated ones. And this was an English situation - not an international one. What would the Apostles have done about false versions? Anything less?

Answer 4

Dear newdude9,

The book of Revelation is very clear that the Anti-Christ is one individual and not a whole group of people. The Bible also teaches that during the middle of the rule of the Anti-Christ he will commit the abomination of desolation where he will go into the temple and demand to be worshipped as God (so it's hard to see that all of the Catholic Church would take that stance). It's a stretch with no Biblical basis.

Hope that helps. Kindly,

Nickster

Answer 5

I think the anti-christ is an idea.

The only thing so abstract that it could fit all of the forewarnings and definitions that everyone has placed upon it.

We are the anti-christ. Maybe not you, or myself, but the idea that we actually question religion itself represents a small portion of "The Anti-Christ" inside of us all.

I don't know how old you are, but look at the youth around you. We are living in a generation of non-believers. Science continues to spit out more and more proof of their not being a "God" or spiritual being.

All you can do is trust the facts in front of you. Whether those facts to you are a bible or the latest edition of Science Magazine. Faith if you are religious, knowledge if you're not.
If you are happy with where you are, don't keep looking.

Answer 6

Not only is it possible, but it is true.
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth" 1 Timothy 4:1-3.If this scripture witch was written 2000 years ago doesn't describe the Catholic church nothing does.Remember not to marvel "for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works" 2 Corinthians 11:14-15.

Answer 7

>>Giving the accounts of the Roman Catholic Church to suppress any the Bible's publication into other languages<<

Preposterous. The Catholic Church was the first Christian body to translate the Bible into the vernacular. Ever heard of St. Jerome?

Answer 8

The Catholic church may be many things, but rest assured it is not the "antichrist." First "disect" your statement. ANTI - "against"; CHRIST = "messiah." For sure the doctrines of the Catholic church teach nothing against Jesus being the messiah, if anything these beliefs are at the heart of what they believe in and teach. The "antichrist" came up only "5" times in the New Testament, yet many christians are hell bent on all the Apostle John said. I am a scholar of religions, not a judeo-christian, but a theban christian, and much of what John wrote is taken way out of context, simply by PEOPLE who do not study the MAN, "John." John and his brother James were the "least" of the 12 apostles, sadly enough for their vain nature and egotisical ways. When the word "antichrist" comes up in the bible it mainly referred to "unbelievers." Those who would or did not accept Jesus was the "Christ." John, being the ways he was stirred up the imaginations of many as a man who was at or around 90 years old on the island of Patmos when he wrote Revelations. How many "old" men do you know who think "rationally" at this age? Senile, resentful, and all alone, John wrote many things in a last ditch effort to gain some respect for himself, but sadly enough he did it through alot of delusional premises............., many take far too "serious....."

Answer 9

It's very possible. I believe that it's fact.

Try reading Revelation in parallel with the book of Daniel. It becomes very clear. The beast of Revelation is the papacy, and the beast gets it's power from the dragon (Satan).

"Many will be deceived" because it seems to be a good power.

I do not think that all catholics are going to hell or anything like that, but I do believe that the papacy is the beast. It was not founded by Christ as many believe, and has a history of not teaching according to the Bible. Plus, they're big on religious compromise, which is VERY dangerous.

Answer 10

I've heard of this before and wonder, but I still feel the Antichrist is a man. Don't know for sure as I do not believe any of us truly do. Just knowing what Revelation has to say about the future is unbelievable. God bless