Who would the antichrist fool?

[Athetotheist]

"....and all the world wondered after the beast." (Rev. 13:3)

The antichrist is supposed to fool everyone----except true Christians----into worshipping him.

How well would that work out? Would he be able to fool.....

Jews? Judaism holds that only God is to be worshipped and that God does not take any physical form. Worship of any human being is considered blasphemous idolatry, and any wonders the antichrist performed would be interpreted as the workings of a false teacher sent by God to test the Jewish people.

Muslims? Islam also teaches that God takes no physical form, so they too would instantly peg the antichrist as a phony.

Feminist Pagans would reject any god-claim which didn't acknowledge the Goddess.

Atheists would suspect any miracle of being either a trick or a coincidence. An "image of the beast" brought to life could be taken for an artificial intelligence project.

The god-claim of the antichrist being fundamentally incompatible with so many beliefs, who would be left for the antichrist to fool?

[Wootah]

[Replying to Wootah in post #37

This thread is meant to scoff at the idea of the antichrist.

This thread is not meant to "scoff" at anything. It is meant to ask a serious critical question of a philosophical nature.

Great and I demonstrated the anti christ is fooling a great many.

[Athetotheist]

[Replying to Wootah in post #37

This thread is meant to scoff at the idea of the antichrist.

This thread is not meant to "scoff" at anything. It is meant to ask a serious critical question of a philosophical nature.

Great and I demonstrated the anti christ is fooling a great many.

You've claimed that the antichrist is fooling many. I've been arguing that there are many he wouldn't fool.

[Wootah]

[Replying to Athetotheist in post #42]

Yes they are called Christians.

[Athetotheist]

[Replying to Athetotheist in post #42]

Yes they are called Christians.

And Jews

And Muslims

And Pagans

And Atheists....

[Clownboat]

Many people will be deceived in that they will believe what this deceiver says because they want to believe it.

Now there is some irony! Seems to me that you are discribing religions in general, not the antichrist of one specific religion.

Want to go to eternal bliss where you can spend eternity with your loved ones? What better pie in the sky could be imagined to believe in? I once was a person that wanted to believe that I would get this. An antichrist though... come on... that's just a Christian belief that Christians in general can't even agree on.

[Wootah]

[Replying to Athetotheist in post #42]

Yes they are called Christians.

And Jews

And Muslims

And Pagans

And Atheists....

Definitionally all except Christians are fooled.

[Wootah]

If I were the devil



5min video on how the anti christ fools.

Set to music!

[Athetotheist]

[Replying to Athetotheist in post #42]

Yes they are called Christians.

And Jews

And Muslims

And Pagans

And Atheists....

Definitionally all except Christians are fooled.

Thing is, it's Christian scripture doing the defining.

[Athetotheist]

If I were the devil



5min video on how the anti christ fools.

Set to music!

What better way would there be for the "devil" to convince people that Christianity wasn't real than by not playing his role in Christian prophecy?

Want some Paul Harvey? Here's some Paul Harvey:

[brunumb]

[Replying to Athetotheist in post #42]

Yes they are called Christians.

And Jews

And Muslims

And Pagans

And Atheists....

Definitionally all except Christians are fooled.

One could argue that Christians are already fooled, about the Christ.