But Catholics do see Christ as the head of the Church…so therefore the Pope is not the Anti-Christ. Right? To use an OT analogy, Christ is the Davidic King like Hezekiah and Peter received the Keys of power like Eliakim (Isaiah 22:22) Problem solved now…right?
most I know or run across describe the pope as the head of the church without thinking about what you're really asking them. those that are challenged on this will include "on earth" in that statement -- the title a pope takes as "vicar of Christ" backs this idea up, with vicar meaning essentially the same "in place of" or "instead of" (for the on earth part) yet the "anti" in antichrist literally means the same thing. take from that what you will. this idea that Christ is some invisible head off in the ethers of the current heaven and needs an earthly substitute is funny considering all the OT stories about oh my ppl really want a king on earth, okay i'll give you a king see what happens... not to mention the earthly substitute really gives a LOT of wiggle room on the rest of their theology, which absolutely contradicts much of God's word as we have it. so I'd have to agree the pop is of course either a "type of" antichrist as they suggest, or rather are one of the antichrists, which to me is just another matter of semantics, but catholic theology is absolutely against the Christ of the Scriptures and the catholic head is as well, even more-so looking at the various popes and their actions throughout history.
But Catholics do see Christ as the head of the Church…so therefore the Pope is not the Anti-Christ. Right?
To use an OT analogy, Christ is the Davidic King like Hezekiah and Peter received the Keys of power like Eliakim (Isaiah 22:22)
Problem solved now…right?
most I know or run across describe the pope as the head of the church without thinking about what you're really asking them. those that are challenged on this will include "on earth" in that statement -- the title a pope takes as "vicar of Christ" backs this idea up, with vicar meaning essentially the same "in place of" or "instead of" (for the on earth part) yet the "anti" in antichrist literally means the same thing. take from that what you will.
this idea that Christ is some invisible head off in the ethers of the current heaven and needs an earthly substitute is funny considering all the OT stories about oh my ppl really want a king on earth, okay i'll give you a king see what happens... not to mention the earthly substitute really gives a LOT of wiggle room on the rest of their theology, which absolutely contradicts much of God's word as we have it. so I'd have to agree the pop is of course either a "type of" antichrist as they suggest, or rather are one of the antichrists, which to me is just another matter of semantics, but catholic theology is absolutely against the Christ of the Scriptures and the catholic head is as well, even more-so looking at the various popes and their actions throughout history.