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haele

(15,593 posts)
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 02:23 AM Oct 2025

In the Roman Biblical era, an Anti-Christ was someone claiming to be to be the returned Christ..

An Anti-Christ was not an opponent of Chist, they would be a false prophet trying mislead Christians and either turn them to sin or use them against other Christian leaders. It was often an epithet used against religious opponents who appeared to be making a heretical power play.
There have been quite a few over the two millennia people have tried to speak for Christ.
As it is, in the current New Testament, St. John the Revelator obviously had Nero in mind when he wrote his diatribe in exile.
So, no, *rump is more like the whore of Babylon. But there are at least two guys hiding in his orbit Id be willing to peg as an Anti-Christ - or two...

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