Featured Reformers' interpretations of the AntiChrist

God sends along mentors to young believers. This is an example of God's Sovereignty.

 

The church is the body of believers. We are the citizens of the Kingdom. God has appointed roles to his members. Some are given the role of pastor's, elders and deacons. All are given the role of discerning God's word. We see this praised by Luke and Paul when the Bereans question them.

Yes, we are all citizens and in that light, we all are priests. We all are equal in that we all are wretched sinners made holy by being immersed into Christ Jesus.

 

The entire book of Job is about Job trying to reconcile his theology with his circumstances.
Job rightly states, in chapter 2, "should we receive only good from God and not evil." Yet, Job and his friends thought that evil came because of a sinful life. Job cannot identify any blatant sin and therefore he doesn't understand why such grief has taken place. Finally he gets frustrated and questions God. God then speaks and rearranges Jobs theology.

So, God's Sovereignty as Supreme Ruler oozes from the book of Job. It is a great comfort when life falls apart. It is a great comfort for today.

 

Be water baptism into Jesus, as he is the One that washes away your sins!

 

So what your saying is Satan was right.

 

No, we are saying that God rules over our lives, and that we should take comfort from that truth!

 

That's what you are concluding. I will leave you to your foolish conclusions.

 

Notice you are not saying he is wrong, Cause what you are saying is he is right.

 

That's what you are concluding. I will leave you to your foolish conclusions.

 

You err in interpreting the Scriptures once again and ignoring the historical record. Jesus established an actual church here on earth, an institutional church with leaders to lead it and to decide things. The spiritual side which you are alluding to is another dimension of the church.

 

His church is the elect, not some stuffy bureaucracy in Rome.

 

You just can't accept reality, can you? Sad, so very sad. Hey, a question for you. The first great schism in Christianity, when did it happen and who was it between? (Answer correctly and you get a fully paid trip to the Vatican with spending money.)

 

The first great schism was between Paul and Barnabas on the second missionary journey.
Luke and the Epistles report many people who held false doctrines that were not of God. Jesus tells us that wolves would come dressed in sheep's clothing. The most obvious wolf lives in the Vatican and you follow him.
(I suspect that answer gets me a trip to the Vatican in shackles.)

 

Oh you have the power of selecting who is Elect and who is Not? Interesting.

 

God has the Sovereign Rulership to choose. Yes.
Do you reject God's Sovereign Right?

 

Oh so not only do you have the power of selecting who is elect, You claim to be God, Interesting.

 

You conclusions are your own. Since I do not claim anything you have stated, it is obvious to all you have no rebuttal.

 

Wrong. You just can't admit the truth of the One Universal (Catholic) Christian Church can you? No Baptists, no Presby's, no Anglicans, no everything else. Just One Universal Christian Church which consisted of the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity which were in accord with one another until a certain time. That's the truth and you as a professing Christian should accept it.

 

The universal church is the elect, chosen by God from before the foundation of the world. (Ephesians 1:4-5)

Your Roman Church is just a pile of bricks and a room full of false teachers.