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The Antichrist

Antichrist is a Christian term based on interpretation of passages in the New Testament, in which the term "anti-Christ" occurs several times in 1 John and 2 John, both in plural form and in the singular. In some versions of Christian eschatology, Jesus will appear in his Second Coming to Earth to face the emergence of the Antichrist figure, who will be the greatest false messiah in Christian history. Just as Christ is the saviour and the ideal model for humanity, his opponent in the end time will be a figure of concentrated evil. However as the Bible also speaks of the anti-Christ in the plural it may well be that the anti-Christ is not just a single figure but an opposing ideology. In 1 John 2:18 it says “…even now are there many anti-Christs’…” and in 1 John 2:22 “…he is anti-Christ that denies the Father and the Son.” These comments indicate that atheists are considered anti-Christs, but the common paradigm is of a single Satan like figure leading evil hordes again