all popes have loved other people and all christians of all denominations, the pope is the visible head of?

Question

Jesus on earth, he is not the anti christ. why do protestants think popes are evil when they have loved so much?

Answer 1

There are good ones, but some of the popes wernt nice to everybody, sorry!!! There were some REAL bad popes!!!! Along time ago, I dont know all the years??, but when guys were wearing pantyhose those days, there was one """doing it""" with his sister!!!!!

Answer 2

We did have a few bad popes back in the day but in general you are right. Most of them have been good Christians and leaders of the Church.

Not all Protestants feel that the Popes are evil...mostly it's just the Bible thumpers who say things like "pope" is not in the Bible. Or use such statements and "I follow no man, only Jesus" blah blah blah. That only goes to show you how much the DO NOT understand about Catholicism. Their ignorance is astounding and even embarrassing if they had the sense to realize how silly they sound.

Answer 3

The Pope is like Jesus' secretary.... an obedient and effective servant whose job is to communicate the boss' message effectively.

And that's just what John Paul II exemplified. Even the way in which he died - in the wake of the circus surrounding Terri Schiavo's death, the Pope died not as a spectacle - but as a man, filled with dignity and faith, an example of how even age can be the cross we bear, a cross taken up in faith and carried to Golgotha.

He served obediently, and that's the best way for a Pope to show leadership... as a fellow servant, or "servant of the servants" as the late Pope called himself.

This is what it is to be the visible head of the church - to be a Christ-like disciple, the most visible example there is of this.

Answer 4

most of the popes loved other people and perhaps all of them wanted all Chrisitan believers to be one.

I can be sure the protestants do not think popes are evil. some would perhaps but they are good people basically. In fact their leaders and founders seceded from the Catholic Church because they protested the many abuses in the Church during the time of Luther onwards and wanted to reform the Church. Unfortunately, they went too far to the point of not being able to return to the Catholic Church. We must respect and even thank the protestants because by pinpointing the abuses in the Church caused by her administrators and managers being humans subject to corruption and sin, our catholic leaders beginning from the popes were able to make so many positive renewals, reforms, changes and improvements in the Church to exist really as the one, catholic, apostolic and true Church founded by Christ.

Answer 5

Um...no, all popes have most definitely not loved people of all denominations. They have encouraged the burning of Protestants as heretics. One outright called for the assassination of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I. Pope John Paul II took many steps in bridging the divide between Catholics and Protestants (including praying with the Archbishop of Canterbury in a protestant church..first pope to do so), but he is the exception more than the rule.

None of these things make him the anti-christ, but your sugar-coated view of the popes is totally out of sync with history.

Answer 6

"all popes have loved other people"

Hunh? Read up on the history of the medieval popes, especially the Medici popes, and you'll learn that they were very, very nasty individuals. They were so violent that they make modern organized criminals look like Boy Scouts in comparison...

Answer 7

Because no where in the Bible does it say exult a man on Earth or that the pope will be the official word of God on Earth that's blashamy

Answer 8

Are u for real? Do some research into Pope John Paul II and his involvment with the holocaust before he became a pope.

Answer 9

I don't honor anyone but Jesus and God. I don't think all Popes are evil, just not someone I should wait with baited breath to tell me what the Bible says or how to live.

Answer 10

There is a lot of scripture that sugests that the Catholic church is the great harlot in Revelation. When the Anti Christ appears on the scene in Revelations he appears as a beast and is being riden by the Harlot (Catholic Church). Since the rider controls what he is riding it would suggest that the Pope would have control over the antichrist until he turns on the rider and destroys it.

Revelation 17:15 And he said to me, "The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. 16 "And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. 17 "For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled. 18 "The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."