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speratus said:
The use of the definite article in scripture does not necessarily refer to a single person (Dan. 8:23; 2 Tim. 3:17; Matt. 22:21, etc.). The Papists themselves refer to their whole line of Popes as if it were one person.
1) Schink's exegesis is fatally flawed in that he fails to interpret the Thessalonian passages in their immediate CONTEXT!! [color:"red"]A text out of context is nothing more than pretext.[/color]

2) Additionally, both you and Schink have failed to rightly use the "Analogy of Faith", i.e., comparing Scripture with Scripture, choosing rather to begin with a prejudicial presupposition and then set out to justify it by twisting the Scriptures to your own destruction. You have not, as is typical, interacted with the passages quoted several times by both myself and Brad from 1John. In those passages, there are specific "denials" which reveal the identify of the Antichrist, along with his precursors; aka: "many". None of the identifying marks (doctrine) can be said to apply to the pope, whether the man or the office.

Creating a strawman and then burning it to the ground may serve to satisfy you, but it surely doesn't make your case. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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