JM
Puritan Board Doctor
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Does the papacy fit this description of antichrist?
Does Roman Catholicism "confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh?"
I hold to the confessional understanding of antichrist and have a hard time reconciling this passage with the Historicist understanding of the papacy. Others, I believe Edwards is one, understand Islam to fit his description better and have referred to Islam as the antichrist in the East. It does make more sense...at least I think it does...
Thank you.
jm
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