BluePhantom
Educator (of liberals)
1 John 2:22-23 says that ANYONE who denies that Jesus is the Messiah ("the Christ" is English for "the Messiah") is the ANTICHRIST...that means that most of the Jews are ANTICHRISTS:
"(22)Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.(23) No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also." 1 John 2:22-23, NIV
Christians, what are your thoughts on most of the Jews being ANTICHRISTS?
Quite a bit actually
a) 1 John is almost universally recognized as pseudepigraphic so its contents are in question right off the bat.
b) You are only quoting part of the section. You ignore 1 John 18-19 which reads "18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.". The anti-Christs the author refers to are not just those why deny Jesus, it is those who claim (or who previously claimed) to be Christian and now deny Jesus. As the Jews never recognized Jesus as the Messiah in the first place, they would not fit the definition of an anti-Christ according to 1 John 2.
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