Pilgrim,

I believe that you already know this by heart and I also know that the WCF is not the inspired Word, but I must quote this again.

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There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but is that antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God. WCF 25-6

Now, I cannot believe that the Westminster Divines who could quote Scripture in their sleep, did not know that the Scripture speaks of many antichrists. They also knew that the antichrist is sometimes referred to as a single person.

"the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come" 1 Jn 2:18

I believe that he (the antichrist) is also referred to as the man [singular] of sin by Paul. 2 Thess 2:3

How is the man of sin to be revealed if he is not clearly revealed sometime in history by true Christians?

Your argument is not with me, a fellow servant, but with the Westminster Divines. I do not have all of your answers except to say that most if not all of the Reformed teachers believed that the Pope is the antichrist including Luther and Calvin. As you know, neither of these men were inclined to bypass Scripture just to have the pleasure of calling names. As far as I know, they never called anyone else antichrist, including the worst of the heretics.

As for me, I wake up in the morning 359 years later (WCF 1646) and see a pope and his cardinals pompously dressed in purple and red, with one billion followers, in Rome and on television. Guess what? They are speaking and doing the same outrageous blasphemies that they have been doing for the last 1700 years. I don't believe anyone is going to convince me that that soul destroying gang of vipers are just another one of many antichrists. My very own sleepy eyes tell me to trust in the judgement of those precious Westminster brothers and their interpretation of who the man of sin or antichrist is.

I thought that my logic in the succession of self-deified Roman Ceasars and Popes in Rome was plausable but obviously you do not. So I will consider your opinion and leave it there.

Someone once told me in this forum that "There is nothing new" so I'm afraid I will probably side with those great men of the Reformation and the Westminster Divines.

In Him

Denny

Roms 3:22-24

Denny

Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." [John 6:68]