Where Christ was God in the flesh, the Antichrist was Satan in the flesh. So the Antichrist would be born of a woman who was apparently a virgin, but was really a whore. Just as Christians came to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, so they thought that the Antichrist was the Son of Satan. The Antichrist was the perfectly evil human being because he was completely opposite to the perfectly good human being, Jesus Christ. Here, then, are five things to know just in case: 1. Vast amounts of Christian ink have been used to try and work out when he will come and just how we might identify him when he does. The Christian tradition tells us to be on the lookout for the Antichrist, who will appear shortly before the big finish. Many of us feel, as poet John Donne put it in The Anatomy of the World in 1611, “Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone”. In the history of the West over the last 2000 years, there has never been a time when someone hasn’t been predicting the end of the world.Īnd now, with a seemingly insoluble climate crisis, pandemic surges, savage wildfires and hurricanes, and a renewed nuclear arms race, seems no time to stop.
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