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flunky1 said:

A final note on my "preconceived ideas" on antichrist. For years, I held that the antichirst was going to be some future world leader. But I looked at church history and saw what the papacy did and examined its claims. I consulted with Scripture, and saw that the papacy fitted the description of the antichrist. But my suspicion is, even if your idea of antichrist were to come on the scene tomorrow, you'd still not accept it.

When Pope John Paul II repeatedly summoned the leaders of the world's pagan religions and their idols to his temple, in obvious fulfillment of biblical prophesy, the reaction of most conservative Protestant theologians was one of indifference. What difference did it make? The head of Roman Church couldn't possibly be the Antichrist. And, of course, when he died, they were proven right (based on their own flawed view of scripture).