No, he doesn't!
"The Pope holds the position of Jesus Christ on Earth," an American seminarian just told Rick Leventhal of FOX News.
No, he doesn't!
The Lutheran Confessions assert that the Papacy as an institution- not any pope as an individual- is the Antichrist of II Thessalonians 2. Coupled with its condemnation of the Gospel- justification by grace alone, through faith alone, for Christ's sake alone- and given Paul's description of the Antichrist in that chapter:
such talk doesn't exactly help. But it does, again, help illustrate why- scholarly integrity aside- the adulation the media have showered upon the Catholic church and their uncritical acceptance of its historically unsupported traditions during this past week is not met with universal approval.
No, he doesn't!
The Lutheran Confessions assert that the Papacy as an institution- not any pope as an individual- is the Antichrist of II Thessalonians 2. Coupled with its condemnation of the Gospel- justification by grace alone, through faith alone, for Christ's sake alone- and given Paul's description of the Antichrist in that chapter:
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God...
such talk doesn't exactly help. But it does, again, help illustrate why- scholarly integrity aside- the adulation the media have showered upon the Catholic church and their uncritical acceptance of its historically unsupported traditions during this past week is not met with universal approval.
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