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Originally Posted by PuritanCovenanter  Good to see you posting again Reverend Mat. I look for your posts. You must be studying. I have not seen you around much.
Concerning the part about the Pope being the Anti-christ. I have some questions here. Which Pope? And what about other Anti-christs. Isn't Islam Anti-Christ also? I do believe they are anti-Christs but to single one out is a bit presumptuous. |
Sorry I've not been around much. Physical infirmity has meant I haven't been able to use the computer as much as normal. Which has been good, because I've caught up on some heavy duty reading.
This is a little off topic, but the Holy Spirit speaks of many antichrists as well as the antichrist. I think the Confession is quite right to do so. But as I've had cause to say before, chapter 25 of the Confession is dealing with ecclesiology not eschatology. Propositionally therefore the statement about the antichrist only requires us to affirm (1.) that Christ alone is the head of the church, (2.) that the antichrist falsely assumes that headship, and (3.) the Pope, in falsely assuming that headship, acts as the antichrist. It's worth pointing out that because the confessional statement interprets the apostle's language as referring to a system rather than an individual man, it leaves open the possibility of a future development of the antichristian system of Papal Rome.