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NASB | 2 John 1:7 ¶ For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 John 1:7 ¶ For many deceivers [heretics, posing as Christians] have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge and confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh (bodily form). This [person, the kind who does this] is the deceiver and the antichrist [that is, the antagonist of Christ]. |
Subject: Does Islam fit here? |
Bible Note: Brother Ed, thank you for your comments. I'll quote a few historians. (By the way, I don't hold any modern Roman Catholic responsible for the acts of people in history. We weren't there. Had we been there, we probably would have done no better. I haven't been placed in a position to do such things, but that is strictly by the grace of God. Furthermore, I am not making any condemnation of Romanism. I am simply responding to a question of the accuracy of a previous post.) Robert Kentch author of "French Wars of Religion" gives estimates as high as 78,000 Huguenots killed The Catholic historian Vergerius, who states that during the Pontificate of Pope Paul IV (1555-1559) "the Inquisition alone, by tortures, starvation, or the fire, murdered more than 150,000 Protestants." "This was the century of the last religious wars in Christendom, the Thirty Years, War in Germany, fomented by the Jesuits, reducing the people to cannibalism, and the population of Bohemia from 4,000,000 to 780,000, and of Germany from 20,000,000 to 7,000,000, and making Southern Germany almost a desert..." --Cushing B. Hassell, "History of the Church of God" "Need I speak to you of the ... Irish rebellion, of the inhuman butchery of about 15 millions of Indians in South America, Mexico and Cuba... In short, it is calculated by authentic historians, that Rome has shed the blood of sixty-eight millions of the human race in order to establish her claims to religious dominion..." --S. S. Schmucker, "Glorious Reformation" "There perished under pope Julian 200,000 Christians: and by the French massacre, on a moderate calculation, in 3 months, 100,000. Of the Waldenses there perished 150,000; of the Albigenses, 150,000. There perished by the Jesuits in 30 years only 900,000. The Duke of Alva destroyed by the common hangman alone, 36,000 persons; the amount murdered by him is set down by Grotius at 100,000. There perished by the fire, and tortures of the Inquisition in Spain, Italy, and France 150,000. In the Irish massacres there perished 150,000 Protestants" --W. C. Browley I could add more quotes, but suffice it to say that one of us is wrong. If I'm wrong, then a lot of historians are wrong. Please site any sources you have to support your position of Rome's benign treatment of Protestantism. (By the way, have you ever read Foxes book of martyrs?) I'll respond to your other comments in a subsequent post. |