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Old 03-07-2008, 01:22 PM
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The list of Bible readers who identified the papacy with antichrist covers more than a thousand years -- from the earliest days of the papacy until now. Luther included Islam with the papacy as the two "legs" of antichrist, and Calvin included them both as the two "horns" of antichrist.

I believe it was mainly in reaction to this particular teaching that those desiring to be more politically correct adopted the dispensationalist theory which moved the antichrist to a future 7-year Tribulation, and changed popery and Islam into "great religions" we are called upon to respect.
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