Please, give some names of masters of deception within the Roman Catholic Church, men or women who did not believe in what they wrote or taught.
Lets start with the Jesuit Ribera whose sole purpose was to counter the teachings of the reformers, not to interpert the truth of the Bible which is what the reformers did.
Jesuit Futurism
Francisco Ribera (1537-1591), a brilliant Jesuit priest and doctor of theology from Spain, answered Papacy’s call.
Like Martin Luther, Francisco Ribera also read by candlelight the prophecies about the Antichrist, the little horn, the man of sin, and the beast of Revelation.
He then developed the doctrine of
futurism. His explanation was that the prophecies apply only to a single sinister man who will arise up at the end of time. Rome quickly adopted this viewpoint as the Church’s official position on the Antichrist.
In 1590 Ribera published a commentary on the Revelation as a counter interpretation to the prevailing view among Protestants which identified the Papacy with the Antichrist. Ribera applied all of Revelation to the end time rather than to the history of the church. Antichrist, he taught, would be a single evil person who would be received by the Jews and who would rebuild Jerusalem.i
This deception has been accepted by a majority of the protestant world and is not supported by the truth of the Bible or History.
Matthew 7:13-14
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and
narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no man
deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Amos 3:7
Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he
revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
