re: Pope Francis the antichrist or the False Prophet

It's illegal to shave your beard before entering a temple.

It's illegal to tie a knot on the sabbath.

Disobeying your parents is punishable by death

All stated in your little Sci Fi novel. If those gays are going to hell, you are right there with them. Religious bigotry. You'd think it would have disappeared over time, as the Bible proves itself not on as a terrible moral guideline, but ridiculous to an absurd level. From the all powerful God needing a nap after creating the solar system, to the All mighty God having emotions like vanity and jealousy. The dude created an angel that he ended up battling in some amazing battle. Let's clarify that. The all knowing God made the devil, so he is to blame for his evil by any reasonable deduction. You know, if you actually believe in the devil. My goodness, you can believe in a higher being and cut out the nonsense you should have stopped believing as a ten year old already. Noah...my God hah

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Just go to the Vatican and look at all the gold, art, and opulence - it's like the exact opposite of what Jesus wanted.

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I knight for the Church a lot, but you're not wrong.

Nah dude it's gonna be like Mad Max

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Solid thread. The office of the pope is the antichrist IMO.

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Some of the strangest and most persistent attacks on the papacy are claims that the pope is the anti-Christ, the beast from the book of Revelation, and the whore of Babylon. But these claims are easily rebutted. 1 John 2:22 says that the anti-Christ “denies that Jesus is the Christ,” but no pope is recorded as ever having done this. Likewise, Revelation 17 speaks of a beast that sits on seven mountains and persecutes the holy ones of God, but the Catholic Church doesn’t persecute Christians or sit on “seven mountains.” Vatican City rests on Vatican Hill, which lies across the river from the seven hills of Old Rome where Christians were crucified and fed to the lions.

The beast in the book of Revelation does have a name that is numbered 666 (Rev. 13:18), which Seventh-day Adventists say corresponds to the numerical value of the Latin rendering of the Pope’s title Vicarius Filli Dei (Vicar of the Son of God). The problem with this claim is that this is not one of the pope’s titles; he’s known as the Vicar of Christ. Ironically, the numerical value of the Latin rendering of the name of Ellen Gould White, founder of the Seventh-day Adventists, is 666! This shows that many names can correspond to this number, though many scholars agree that it probably refers to a Roman emperor like Nero, or the Roman Empire as a whole because of its violent persecution of the Church during the first century.

While some Fundamentalists might say it is the “spawn of Satan,” the papacy is actually God’s gift to the Church. It ensures the Church will be united in one faith, one baptism, and the worship of one God who entrusted his Church to the successors of the apostles under the leadership of Peter’s successor, whom we call the pope.

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the papacy is actually God’s gift to the Church.

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Actually, the papacy and it's system is foreign to the early church. I'm familiar with the Roman Catholic teaching rejecting sola scriptura which is needed to introduce non-scriptural practices and views within Christianity.

The Church which was established by Jesus isn't the Church seen in the Roman Catholic system.

Mayer Amschel Bauer hung a red plate over his door. He changed his name to the German for "red plate." This red plate bore a long recognized occult symbol - with 6 points, 6 triangles, and a 6-sided polygon. His sons become very powerful bankers, funded some really big wars, and funded a new country whose flag bears this symbol.