Does the Atlantic really care who is the Anti-Christ?
While I think the Lutheran Synod of Bachmann is wrong, that is historic protestant teaching, and I’m pretty sure Martin Luther believed essentially the same.
John Wesley did, so that axes Methodists. Luther did so that axes Lutherans. Calvin did so that axes presbies, congregationalists, etc., etc.
It’s beginning to sound like a “religious test”....isn’t it? And those are forbidden by the constitution.
Oh...and should we get rid of Obama because of Jeremiah Wright?
The Catholic bishop Arnulf of Orleans was the first to apply the ‘man of sin’ prophecy in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-9 to the papacy. The same interpretation was given by the Catholic abbot Joachim of Floris in 1190 and the archbishop Eberhard II in 1240. — EB Elliott, ‘Horae Apocalypticae’, volume IV, Appendix I, fifth edition, 1862; Leroy Edwin Froom, The Prophetic Faith Of Our Fathers, volume I (1950) pages 541-542 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism_%28Christianity%29#Historicism_up_to_the_Reformation