Carl,
Your comment is no better than Murphs. Calling the Pope the anti Christ is uncalled for as much as Murphs post about Luther.
Protestants and Catholics have much in common. Both recognize Christ as Savior.
Slandering each other is not helpful.
You obviously do not understand that the pope is regarded as the Antichrist not just by me, but by confessional Lutherans for the past five centuries., as described in the Brief Statement of 1932, Of the Antichrist:
As to the Antichrist we teach that the prophecies of the Holy Scriptures concerning the Antichrist, 2 Thess. 2:3-12; 1 John 2:18, have been fulfilled in the Pope of Rome and his dominion. All the features of the Antichrist as drawn in these prophecies, including the most abominable and horrible ones, for example, that the Antichrist "as God sitteth in the temple of God," 2 Thess. 2:4; that he anathematizes the very heart of the Gospel of Christ, that is, the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins by grace alone, for Christ's sake alone, through faith alone, without any merit or worthiness in man (Rom. 3:20-28; Gal. 2:16); that he recognizes only those as members of the Christian Church who bow to his authority; and that, like a deluge, he had inundated the whole Church with his antichristian doctrines till God revealed him through the Reformation — these very features are the outstanding characteristics of the Papacy. (Cf. Smalcald Articles, Triglot, p. 515, Paragraphs 39-41; p. 401, Paragraph 45; M. pp. 336, 258.) Hence we subscribe to the statement of our Confessions that the Pope is "the very Antichrist." (Smalcald Articles, Triglot, p. 475, Paragraph 10; M., p. 308.)
Carl, your comment is no better than Murphs. Calling the Pope the anti Christ is uncalled for as much as Murphs post about Luther.
Unless Carl is CORRECT about who the Antichrist/little horn/beast/man of sin/son of perdition power is. Carl IS CORRECT. And guess what? EVERY PROTESTANT REFORMER knew and publicly stated that the RCC was the Antichrist power. Many of the reformers went to their graves saying it as they were being tortured and then murdered by said Antichrist power. There is only one power that meets every biblical criteria for the Antichrist and that is the RCC. There is none other.
Here’s a few clues for you to consider:
1: It comes out of the 4th beast, WHICH IS ROME.
2: It will be a geographically small nation (a little horn..The Vatican).
3: It will rule over many people, nations and tongues (it will be universal)
4: It will be headquartered in the city of seven hills, (ROME).
5: Its priest-king will make great and blasphemous claims (claim to equal with God, claim to be able to forgive sins, and justify the persecution the saints of God).
6: It will claim its power to change the holy times and laws of God as its mark of authority.
7: It will be an apostate Church that makes the nations drink her cup of apostate doctrine.
8: It will be a “mother” Church, with apostate daughters coming from her.
9: It will be a persecuting power, killing the faithful saints of Jesus Christ as heretics.
10: It will hold power and authority for 1260 years following the fall of pagan Rome
11: It will suffer a deadly wound that will end 1260 years of dominance and persecution.
12: It will be revived after the deadly wound, and all the world would wonder at its revival.
13: It will rise to be a great power after the fall of the pagan Roman Empire (after 476 AD)
14: It would uproot three of the ten kingdoms the Roman Empire collapsed into.
The Antichrist power is the RCC. They have tortured and murdered more protestants (and many other groups of people) than any other entity in earth’s history, all in the name of religion and rooting out HERETICS.
The RCC meets every single biblical criteria for being identified as the Antichrist power. The RCC is Babylon. Some of the most sincere and decent Christians I have ever known have been Catholic. It’s not the people, it’s the system. Come out of her my people.