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What is the classic reformed view of the 'Beast' from Revelations? What did the Reformers teach?
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Chapter XXV
Of the Church
VI. There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof: but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalteth himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God.
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Chapter XXV
Of the Church
VI. There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor can the pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof.
but is rather mild in his commentary. Most of the rabid anti-Catholicism is no longer part of the cultural context of the conservative Reformed churches as it was in the 19thC. However rebaptism of RCC is routinely practiced and for most Reformed going to a mass would be idoltry.SECTION VI. There is no other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ.[13] Nor can the pope of Rome, in any sense, be head thereof;[14] but is that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God.