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To: Elyse

thats not anywhere near correct:

Antichrists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_Church%E2%80%93Missouri_Synod#Antichrists
The LCMS holds that all “false teachers who teach contrary to Christ’s Word are opponents of Christ” and, insofar as they do so, are anti-Christ.[16] The LCMS does not teach, nor has it ever taught, that any individual Pope as a person is to be identified with the Antichrist.[16] However, to the extent that the papacy continues to claim as official dogma the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent, the LCMS position is that the office of the papacy is the Antichrist.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/07/lutheranism-the-antichrist/

http://www.wels.net/about-wels/doctrinal-statements/antichrist?page=0,1


27 posted on 10/21/2013 7:55:59 PM PDT by RBStealth (--raised by wolves, disciplined and educated by nuns.)
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To: RBStealth

http://www.christalcc.org/files/ALCC_Position_Paper_The_Papacy.
5. The ALCC officially and emphatically declares that the Pope is not “the antichrist.” He never was, and he never will be. We also hold that the Roman Catholic Church is not the “apostate church of the antichrist” or “the whore of Babylon.


34 posted on 10/21/2013 11:12:10 PM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: RBStealth

http://www.christalcc.org/files/ALCC_Position_Paper_The_Papacy.
5. The ALCC officially and emphatically declares that the Pope is not “the antichrist.” He never was, and he never will be. We also hold that the Roman Catholic Church is not the “apostate church of the antichrist” or “the whore of Babylon.


35 posted on 10/21/2013 11:28:45 PM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: RBStealth

http://www.lcms.org/faqs/lcmsviews#pope
A: The LCMS does not teach, nor has it ever taught, that any individual Pope as a person, is to be identified with the Antichrist. The historic view of LCMS on the Antichrist is summarized as follows by the Synod’s Theological Commission:

The New Testament predicts that the church throughout its history will witness many antichrists (Matt. 24:5,23-24; Mark 13:6,21-22; Luke 21:8; 1 John 2:18,22; 4:3; 2 John 7). All false teachers who teach contrary to Christ’s Word are opponents of Christ and, insofar as they do so, are anti-Christ.

However, the Scriptures also teach that there is one climactic “Anti-Christ” (Dan. 7:8,11, 20-21, 24-25; 11:36-45; 2 Thessalonians 2; 1 John 2:18; 4:3; Revelation 17-18). . . Concerning the historical identity of the Antichrist, we affirm the Lutheran Confessions’ identification of the Antichrist with the office of the papacy whose official claims continue to correspond to the Scriptural marks listed above. It is important, however, that we observe the distinction which the Lutheran Confessors made between the office of the pope (papacy) and the individual men who fill that office. The latter could be Christians themselves. We do not presume to judge any person’s heart. Also, we acknowledge the possibility that the historical form of the Antichrist could change. Of course, in that case another identified by these marks would rise.


36 posted on 10/21/2013 11:46:38 PM PDT by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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