Is the Anti-christ a single individual or a group of people, and what religion does he/they come from?

Answer 1

Antichrist means against or instead of Christ. The term applies to all who deny what the Bible says about Jesus Christ, all who oppose his Kingdom, and all who mistreat his followers. It also includes individuals, organizations, and nations that falsely claim to represent Christ or that improperly ascribe to themselves the role of Messiah.

When the refers to "the Antichrist", it quite obviously refers to more than one individual, since 1John 2:18 mentions "many antichrists" This scripture also refers to antichrists being in existence at the time John penned these words. The fact that antichrists have been in existence from then down to our day is evident by the fact that there are, and have been since the time of Jesus, those who deny Christ's Messiahship, oppose his kingdom, abuse his followers, and even place themselves above Christ. by claiming to be able to do what only Jesus, by means of God's kingdom, can do such as bring about world peace.

Answer 2

That is a truly interesting question. My thought has always been that it is an individual in a position of power with high exposure to many, many other people. Now, if you want to go deeper into the subject, the anti-Christ can also be anything we do as individuals or as a group that goes against God's teachings.

If it is an individual, I would say Satanism would be the religion. If it is us on a daily basis, it could be any religion.

Answer 3

The word "antichrist" ONLY appears in the letters of John. (Nowhere in Revelation!) It appears in the singular and the plural. For John, an antichrist is a person who does not believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Savior. The antichrist is not some supernatural monster or a mob. It's just individuals who preach against the central ideas of Christianity.

They "come from" the Christian community. That's why they are a problem. They attempt to subvert the community's beliefs. In the early years of Christianity, the theology wasn't quite settled, so there were Arians, Marcionites, Gnostics and other factions who had a very different approach to what became the orthodox doctrines. Before the councils of the Fourth Century, it was hard to tell just whose thology was right. John was warning communities to watch out for false preachers who were trying to turn Christianity into something it wasn't.

Answer 4

According to 1 John 2:18-23 and 1 John 4:1-3, an antichrist is anybody who denies Jesus Christ. There is no such thing as THE antichrist. The idea that there is one person who is the antichrist is a conflation of the "man of lawlessness" or "son of perdition" in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 and the two beasts in Revelation 13.

Answer 5

Anti-christs come from Christianity, and are mentioned in the bible only in the first two letters of John. Contrary to popular belief, nowhere in the Book of Revelation is there any mention of an Anti-christ.

Basically, according to John, an Anti-christ is anyone who doesn't believe that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. In other words, there are literally millions of Anti-christs alive at this very moment ... some of them posting on Y/A!.

Don't believe the hoopla that the Anti-christ is going to be some future world dictator. That's not what the bible teaches.


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Answer 6

You must have heard much about DAJJAL - THE ANTI-CHRIST the Anti- Christ from the Christian and Jewish authorities. But what did The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) say about DAJJAL (The greatest Fitnah (Evil, test) that will ever befall mankind.

DAJJAL (anti-christ) will emerge from a place between Syria and Iraq, and his emergence will become known when he is in Isfahaan at a place called Judea (Yahudea). He will be of Jewish origin. He will have caused his Jewish parents much distress and pain. The Jews will accept him as ' The Messiah' and become his main followers. He will also have a great number of women followers as well. The entire secular world (Jews/Freemasons, Atheist, Christians, Hindus Etc.) shall unite under the banner of the Anti-Christ against Islam.

Islam will be the only force standing between him and the total world domination.

DAJJAL will have the power to cause Famine, Earthquakes and destruction on a mass scale. Many Muslims will join the ranks of DAJJAL on being afraid of his power. Only those with very strong faith will be able to resist.



Remember that once you have joined the Anti-Christ,
your soul will be doomed forever in the fire of hell.

Answer 7

This depends on your reference. Both Paul and John speak of the anti-christ as any person or people who are against the doctrine of Jesus Christ. In Revelation this is an individual whose etnhnicity is vague. He will unite the world after the rapture but after he comes into power he will show his true colors as a pawn of Satan. He is destroyed when Christ returns to set up His kindom, by being cast into the lake of fire.

Answer 8

The Bible says there are many antichrists, not just one. First John 2:18 states: “Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists; from which fact we gain the knowledge that it is the last hour.” John’s statement shows that there are many individual antichrists, though all together they may form a composite person designated “the antichrist.” (2Jo 7)

John specifically mentions apostates as among those of the antichrist by referring to those who “went out from us,” abandoning the Christian congregation. (1Jo 2:18, 19) It therefore includes “the man of lawlessness” or “son of destruction” described by Paul, as well as the “false teachers” Peter denounces for forming destructive sects and who “disown even the owner that bought them.”—2Th 2:3-5; 2Pe 2:1

Kingdoms, nations, and organizations are similarly shown to be part of the antichrist in the symbolic description at Revelation 17:8-15; 19:19-21

Answer 9

1 John 2:18
Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.

1 John 2:22
Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist—he denies the Father and the Son.

1 John 4:3
but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

CCC 675 - Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.

Answer 10

This answer depends largely on who you ask from a religious standpoint one says that Santan is the anti-crist and he has a band of minions and he was a fallen angel, another says that satan is the brother of christ and exists just to test us. Some would say that any person against their religion is the anti-christ.