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Finally, after distorting the text and history to read what they want into the Bible, and thereby obtaining God's "blessing" on their hatred of the Catholic Church, some "Christians" ignore the only texts of Scripture which tells us about the religious leanings of the Antichrist.
The Catholic faith being a religion you would think they would see what it teaches on the only criteria the Bible actually gives about the Antichrist. In St. John's letters (1 John 4, 2 John 1), he tells us that the spirit of the Antichrist denies the Incarnation (the Son of God becoming man) and thereby also the Trinity (the Father and the Spirit, too). This is the spirit of the Antichrist.
1John 4:2 "This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but 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."
There is not a single text in 2000 years, including the new Catechism of the Catholic Church, where the Catholic Church, her popes, her bishops, her official teachings, her saints, or her acknowledged ecclesiastical authors, deny the Word-made-flesh or the Blessed Trinity. Instead, all of Christianity owes the preservation of these Truths to the Catholic Church, whose great Councils formulated them and whose saints and popes have defended them to this day, often at the cost of martyrdom.
We declare this every Sunday
The nicene creed which will be even more specific this winter
New translation for new Roman Missal (Note – New translation for Roman Missal
This is the new translation of the original Latin, more accurate than the ecumenical version that has been in use since the late 1960s. The new texts for the Order of Mass were approved by the Holy See in July 2008, but will not be in use until the entire Missal completed and published, estimated to be in 2011 or 2012.)
I believe in one God the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through Him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation He came down from heaven.
(at the following words, up to and including “and became man”, all bow)
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man.
For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate, He suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. His kingdom will have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets; And in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
Amen.
http://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/whore_of_babylon.htm
Also if my Church takes away the priniciple of Christ did not come as Human(Flesh). That Divinity(Jesus) became human. I will be the first to run out the door. Or If visiting friend’s church with same. LOL!
Diocletian became emperor in AD 244. The Apostle John had died 150 years before. One of many errors in this piece.
Here's another falsehood. Constantine was responsible for ending the persecution; he didn't "combine the power of the state" with any ecclesiastical structure. Theodosius did that.
As for "squelching dissent," it didn't seem to "squelch" very effectively. Heresies were all over the place in the first millennium, both before and after Theodosius.