{"id":253,"date":"2009-01-29T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T03:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=253"},"modified":"2009-01-29T23:16:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T03:16:18","slug":"antichrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/253\/antichrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Antichrist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I was wondering if you could answer a question that I think I’ve had for a while.\u00a0 You’ve said before that Christianity\u00a0was the anti-christ.\u00a0 Is that just Christianity or is that all religions?\u00a0 I guess it’s anything that pretends to be from God but isn’t?<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/span><\/p>\n

Maleah<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi Maleah.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Good to hear from you!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

You’re thinking in the right direction.\u00a0 Any religion or philosophy that claims\u00a0it represents the Father, other than the way\u00a0the Father\u00a0Himself established in Jesus, is unholy and it hurts people.\u00a0 Such religions and philosophies\u00a0give people a false sense of security and a false hope.\u00a0 But to qualify to be\u00a0“anti-christ”, a religion has to claim to represent the Son, not just the Father, and that is what makes Christianity the principal anti-christ religious system.\u00a0 It claims to represent Christ, not just “God”.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In the first century AD, the Greek word “anti” did not mean “against” as much as it meant “instead of”.\u00a0 So the “anti-Christ” spirit is a spirit that people\u00a0receive instead of the Spirit of Christ.\u00a0 This spirit does not speak in tongues or with “stammering lips” when it comes in, and John said that’s how we can always recognize the spirit of anti-christ from the real\u00a0holy Spirit (1Jn. 4:1-2).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks for writing.\u00a0 God bless.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey Pastor John, I was wondering if you could answer a question that I think I’ve had for a while.\u00a0 You’ve said before that Christianity\u00a0was the anti-christ.\u00a0 Is that just Christianity or is that all religions?\u00a0 I guess it’s anything that pretends to be from God but isn’t? Thanks, Maleah ========= Hi Maleah. Good to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}