tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post212688767591047357..comments2024-03-15T09:07:15.798-07:00Comments on NICK'S CATHOLIC BLOG: Why identifying the Papacy with the Antichrist is an "essential" doctrine of Protestantism.Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01453168437883536663noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-65476569654156600142012-05-23T11:02:43.046-07:002012-05-23T11:02:43.046-07:00If you think about the core objectives of the earl...If you think about the core objectives of the early reformers it was to take over or replace the Catholic church with a new church that held to Protestant doctrines on either issues of justification or issues of secular government. They failed. The unexpected happened, both Protestantism and Catholicism continued and spread. Protestantism most importantly to the United States but also Australia, Canada, South Africa... Catholicism most importantly to all of Latin America.<br /><br />There is no question neither group for decades saw the possibility that they were creating religious pluralism. None foresaw the Peace of Augsburg, much less that in less than 100 years it would be made the permanent institutional structure with the Peace of Westphalia. <br /><br />Nothing shocking there. Both the Reformers and the Catholics in the 16th century were clueless when it came to what would happen.CD-Hosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00304535091189153224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-58407476061734967042012-05-08T12:53:48.927-07:002012-05-08T12:53:48.927-07:00The perfect fit for that description of Anti-Chris...The perfect fit for that description of Anti-Christ by the Church Fathers coming from the jewish lineage and add the characteristic of "rejection" of Jesus Christ as the Messiah comes in the flesh:<br /><br />CCC 675. "Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.574 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth575 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."<br /><br />Is no other than Karl Marx and the Bolsheviks (Jewish line) who concocted and promoted the greatest scourge mankind has ever known that even Our Blessed Mother has to come dowm from Heaven to Fatima and perform the greatest Sign of the Sun.....the Atheistic Communism which until now even somehow "vanished and defeated" from the face of the earth still spreading its poison of Atheistic secularism, liberalism, modernism, humanism and relatism that is spreading and afflicting the western world and great part of Asia.<br /><br />I really think this is best described in the Book of Revelation where the first beast (Atheistic Communism)was seemed to be as "wounded" then the second beast arises (Secularism, relativism etc).<br /><br />Just my thoughts linking what the chronological events been taking placed, from Pope Leo XIII's apparition when he saw "Satan asking Christ enough time and power to destroy His Church in 100 years.." to the Catechism of the Church describing the nature of Anti-Christ and Second Coming , Fatima, Book of Revelation and the words of PJII.Jaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08949794711507726903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-77455364047258508292012-05-07T18:43:18.814-07:002012-05-07T18:43:18.814-07:00Hello Steve,
That is a very interesting connecti...Hello Steve, <br /><br />That is a very interesting connection to make. My mind simply understood St John to be talking about heretics who denied Christ's divinity and secularists who didn't believe Jesus is Messiah, but it makes perfect sense for John to be talking about a Jew of sorts because they would certainly fit his description. That would make sense for the Church Fathers to make such a claim. <br /><br />(Note: I don't go for the extreme views that state the Jews are behind everything wrong with the world.)Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453168437883536663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588905705506605875.post-61739399084819952062012-05-04T06:51:06.406-07:002012-05-04T06:51:06.406-07:00Your remarks about the impossibility of the pope b...Your remarks about the impossibility of the pope being the Anti-Christ are on target. It was the realization that the Catholic Church always taught Jesus was Christ come in the flesh that knocked down one barrier that kept me out of the Church.<br />When John wrote his epistles that had the word Anti-Christ in them, there was one religion at that time in history that denied Jesus was Christ come in the flesh. That religion was the one that was known as Phariseeism, the tradition of the elders, or Rabbical Judaism. One only has to go back and forth between John's Gospel (especially the 1st and 8th chapters) and his epistles to see the growing rejection of Jesus as Christ come in the flesh in what was developing as Rabbical Judaism. I can see why many, if not all, of the church fathers taught that Anti-Christ will be a Jew. Since their rejection of Jesus, the Jewish people have followed and have been led astray by various false Christs and messianic movements. Sabbat Tzivi and Zionism are two good examples of this. Pope Pius V claimed that Jews were the seed-bag of nearly all of the heresies that have bothered the church since day one. Indeed, if you read Rabbi Louis I Newman's "Jewish Influence On Christian Reform Movements" you will find (from a Jewish point of view) that PPV was right on the money. The Anti-Christ, IMHO, will probably be a Crypto-Jew passing as a Christian. Just as Anti-Christianism arose in the Old Testament Church, so will it spring up in the New Testament, being pushed by the secret Jews (false breathern) and their duped Gentile helpers. (Sabbat Goys)Steve "scotju" Daltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17864544146213840928noreply@blogger.com