Will the Pope turn out to be the Anti-Christ?

Answer 1

I do not think so.

Biblical apocalyptic literature predicts the coming of "the" Antichrist, the name given to the one who will be Christ’s chief enemy. This will be just one person.

It is not uncommon for fundamentalist writers or preachers to attach the label to a currently living person. By calling a second (or third or fourth) person "the" Antichrist, they show that they were wrong when they applied the title to the first person.

Every Pope since the time of Martin Luther has been labeled "the" Antichrist by at least one anti-Catholic "Christian," making each one incorrect (so far).

The adjective "anti-Christ" does not refer to the person prophesied in the Bible. It may be applied to an attitude or action judged to be fundamentally opposed to Christ and his message, for example: Hating others is anti-Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI just wrote a wonderful book entitled, "Jesus of Nazareth." http://www.ignatius.com/ViewProduct.aspx?SID=1&Product_ID=3060&AFID=42

From a book review: Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal conviction as a believer, the Pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and invites us to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith.

How can someone who writes such a book be accused of being either the Antichrist or anti-Christ?

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Sounds like the curse of Martin Luther who called the Pope the Anti-Christ. But you know what, it turned out that the pope of his time was not the anti-Christ, but do you know what Martin Luther was? Luther was the man who divided Christiandom. Jesus prayed that his Church be one, yet Luther divided it.
The Anti-christ will deny that Jesus has come in the flesh. If a pope ever did this, he would stop being pope ipso facto.

Answer 3

No, the anti-christ has nothing to do with Rome or the Catholic Church. The seven hills in Revelation are not relavent to Rome. The mark of the beast may not be a mark at all. In John 6:66 - 6:71 it refers to the devil being in the form of a man.

Look for the Anti-Christ to be world leader with a lot of "good" in him, but much more evil under the surface. He has to appear to be good for the world to follow him. The Pope has no military and no non-Christian would follow him anywhere.

Answer 4

It's part of the system,but I say that the person of the Anti-Christ will be Jewish.Why?Because
to fool them into thinking he is the Messiah wouldn't he have to be Jewish.Just my thoughts.

Answer 5

The Pope is not the Anti-Christ. The Papacy is the Anti-Christ.

"In the movements now in progress in the United States to secure for the institutions and usages of the church the support of the state, Protestants are following in the steps of papists. Nay, more, they are opening the door for the papacy to regain in Protestant America the supremacy which she has lost in the Old World. And that which gives greater significance to this movement is the fact that the principal object contemplated is the enforcement of Sunday observance–a custom which originated with Rome, and which she claims as the sign of her authority. It is the spirit of the papacy–the spirit of conformity to worldly customs, the veneration for human traditions above the commandments of God–that is permeating the Protestant churches and leading them on to do the same work of Sunday exaltation which the papacy has done before them.
If the reader would understand the agencies to be employed in the soon-coming contest, he has but to trace the record of the means which Rome employed for the same object in ages past. If he would know how papists and Protestants united will deal with those who reject their dogmas, let him see the spirit which Rome manifested toward the Sabbath and its defenders.
Royal edicts, general councils, and church ordinances sustained by secular power were the steps by which the pagan festival attained its position of honor in the Christian world. The first public measure enforcing Sunday observance was the law enacted by Constantine. (A.D. 321; See Appendix.) This edict required townspeople to rest on "the venerable day of the sun," but permitted countrymen to continue their agricultural pursuits. Though virtually a heathen statute, it was enforced by the emperor after his nominal acceptance of Christianity.
The royal mandate not proving a sufficient substitute for divine authority, Eusebius, a bishop who sought the favor of princes, and who was the special friend and flatterer of Constantine, advanced the claim that Christ had transferred the Sabbath to Sunday. Not a single testimony of the Scriptures was produced in proof of the new doctrine. Eusebius himself unwittingly acknowledges its falsity and points to the real authors of the change. "All things," he says, "whatever that it was duty to do on the Sabbath, these we have transferred to the Lord's Day."–Robert Cox, Sabbath Laws and Sabbath Duties, page 538. But the Sunday argument, groundless as it was, served to embolden men in trampling upon the Sabbath of the Lord. All who desired to be honored by the world accepted the popular festival.
As the papacy became firmly established, the work of Sunday exaltation was continued. For a time the people engaged in agricultural labor when not attending church, and the seventh day was still regarded as the Sabbath. But steadily a change was effected. Those in holy office were forbidden to pass judgment in any civil controversy on the Sunday. Soon after, all persons, of whatever rank, were commanded to refrain from common labor on pain of a fine for freemen and stripes in the case of servants. Later it was decreed that rich men should be punished wit"(Great Controversy 1911, Pages 573-575)

Answer 6

No the pope will turn out to be a pope.

Answer 7

One would hope so. I would personally love the irony and the fall of the Catholic Church would be an added bonus.

Answer 8

Ha ha. I came on here for a laugh and I haven't been disappointed!

Answer 9

Isn't that already a given?

Answer 10

Muahahaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! You becha!