Hm...how do we reconcile this with modern thought...

You won't reconcile it with contemporary, post-modern influenced thought in the church.

However, the RCC does set the Pope up as the earthly representative of Christ. So they do make him an anti (instead of) Christ.

I doubt that he is the singular manifestation of "that man of sin, and son of perdition." And we have many people of all stripes who exalt themselves in the church against Christ.

I believe the pope to be a false prophet/teacher like those we are warned about in 2 Peter and other scriptures. The Pope and his church will led many astray with their false doctrines- especially those concerning the means of salvation.

 

The London Confession of Baptist Faith is ofcourse un-Biblical at this point. We have a rather straightforward definition of the term anti-Christ in the bible. It only shows up in John's epistle's (which the London confession don't seem to cover when talking about the subject).
Denial of the fact that Jezus is the Christ and that Jezus has come into the flesh are part and parcel of what makes somebody an Anti-Christ. Whatever may be wrong with any given pope none of them has ever done that.

 

Those exact words got one of my posts shut down... on a BAPTIST board!

Chad

 

How is the pope an antichrist as per I John?

How do you know the pope is in hades and will go to the Lake of Fire? Do you have a link to the webcam? Seriously, how do you know this?

 

How is the pope an antichrist as per I John?

How do you know the pope is in hades and will go to the Lake of Fire? Do you have a link to the webcam? Seriously, how do you know this? </font>[/QUOTE]it is obvious that the popes follow a different jesus and they are not even loyal to the different jesus that they try to please. do you think that the pope was believing in the biblical Jesus that doesnt accept sacraments as a path to heaven?

 

also a friend of mine saw a catholic sign that read remember our holy father in prayer and under it read bingo at 4 oclock.

 

That is why the proper use of "Anti-christ" refers to the Son of perdition. The LCF is referring to that "spirit of anti-christ", not the actual individual, as the capitalization denotes.

English 101

 

To answer the question; you don't reconcile anything with modern thought, you corrupt it.

 

There were and are many anti-christs' in the world. The pope is just a blatant example of a Judas goat leading the flock to slaughter.

 

The word anti-Christ means "instead of Christ". The Pope stands as the "vicar" of Christ, that is the substitute for Christ... he is instead of Christ... anti-Christ.

I am not insinuating he is necessarily THE anti-Christ.

Chad

 

When Scripture uses the title "the man of God" (e.g. 2 Tim. 2:37), it is not referring to a particular man, but a man who holds that office. Likewise, the man who occupies the Papacy (the office of the Pope) is "the man of sin."

 

I can believe that a Baptist board would run somebody off for denouncing the Papacy because more Baptists are headed toward Rome any how.

 

I think that the ultimate state of someone who has been brainwashed with catholic theology all of their life is not able to be certainly decided by us and is best left in the hands of God.