(posted 1/5/2023)
I'm not yet convinced that the Pope is the Anti-Christ. That's the historic Protestant position going back to the days of the Protestant Reformation. Usually with the eschatological assumption of Historicism whereby the book of Revelation has been being fulfilled slowly down through history. I myself tend to interpret the book of Revelation in a Partial Preterist and Idealist way. Though, I'm slowly looking into the case for Historicism.
I think the pope is *an* anti-Christ even if I'm not yet convinced he's *the* anti-Christ. I say that even though there probably are some genuinely saved people in the Catholic Church. I believe there's enough truth in Catholicism for some to possibly be saved despite all the "traditions of men" that water down the truth and despite the official Catholic gospel not technically being a saving gospel. This is because perfect doctrine doesn't save. Rather it is Christ who saves, normatively through the very basics of the Gospel which include things like the doctrine of the Trinity and salvation by grace. Catholicism technically teaches both. Though, Catholicism's complex Gospel with all the accretions of the traditions of men technically denies (either outright, or at the very least implicitly) the sufficiency of the redemption Christ purchased at the cross in many ways.
The following is a link to some message that argue for the historic Protestant position that the Pope is the Anti-Christ.
