{"id":3959,"date":"2015-03-29T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2015-03-29T19:31:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T23:31:13","slug":"wcf-chapter-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3959","title":{"rendered":"WCF: Chapter 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the Church<\/p>\n<p><em>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 exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.&#8221; (1 John 2:22)<\/p>\n<p>The Pope of Rome is not the Antichrist. Full stop. <\/p>\n<p>I am in favor of replacing the above paragraph with the American revision adopted by the OPC, which reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the Church 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 exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God. &#8220;Who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=3959\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WCF: Chapter 25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}