I was just looking at the site Bible code wisdom. King James as such has 54 matches. King James Bible, zero, King James Version, zero. By an act of laziness I actually looked up the description. It ended "do sceptics think Antichrist is a myth?" So I did a search on Antichrist myth.
Here is the first match:
The First Epistle General of John 2:18
Little children, it is the last hour and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last hour.
ANTICHRISTCOMETHEVENNOWHAVETHEREARISENMANYANTICHRISTS
There was even a plural s. If we continue every third letter:
WHEREBYWEKNOWTHATITISTHELASTHOUR
A wry face might be appropriate?
Now, in a certain sense, one can say that Pagan myths contain many Christ figures - but in another sense, they also contain many Antichrist figures. Not just the obvious bad guys, who were obvious as such to Greeks, like Antonous the suitor of Penelope. He tortured the bride of Ulysses to make her his bride - though he really didn't care for her, just for the power. And Ulysses, appropriately, killed him. But also some of the apparent good guys. Hercules - because he allowed Pagans to worship him as a saviour, because he was a false prophet about Gigantomachy, in which he claimed to have had a role which he did not have. And because he attacked his wife. The beast will hate the harlot (or is doing so even now). And he killed his wife and children in madness.
Krishna was a false prophet to Arjuna, if he pretended to be divine, and if he really said that gold, dung heaps, cows and wise men were all the same. Perhaps his real words may have been slightly distorted, but if so we don't have them. Perhaps one could make some sense of someone telling horrible rich guys they would be better off valuing gold as little as a dung heap and wise men as much as cows. But that is not the exact words, though I am not at any rate an expert on Bhagavad Gita, and the claim of being divine, as given in the myth, is, when we compare this to reality (outside the world of this myth) a blasphemy.
Antonous, Krishna, Hercules. How about some of the major gods also originating as Antichrists? What if Nimrod after getting a bit slow in killing a monster (he began to be a giant and he was of some use in killing monsters, like Hercules after him) and hearing a pique about it answered sth like "you should have seen me in my youth, I killed off Tiamat and created the universe off the carcass!" And the sceptic asking him if he couldn't climb to heaven then, and him starting the Tower of Babel ... and when they concluded either he wasn't the god who had done this or that his human body was not the appropriate mode for his most divine operations, they still kept that myth. And Hermes Trismegistus - also known as Thot - was a magician. Odin assumed both identities, when appearing in Uppsala to fool the Swedes.
Next match is basically same verse, only Antichrists coincides with many instead of Antichrist coming before.
Third match has "myth" in "many Antichrists", but "Antichrist" a few verses later:
They went out from us, but they were not of us for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.
And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all the things.
I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and because no lie is of the truth.
Who is the liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, [even] he that denieth the Father and the Son.
Here is verse 22, end of fourth match.
And fourth match is also St John, next epistle:
The Second Epistle of John 1:7 - 9
For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.
Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.
I had better highlight in context this time:
For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, [even] they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.
Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.
Here all the letters in "myth" are in "good words" even if these are negated in context. Jesus Christ "cometh" in the flesh. The "yourselves" is the Church. We are adminished to do sth "that" we receive a full reward. And even if the h is from first "abideth" which is followed by a "not", "abideth" is still a good word.
We may here be reminded that the Antichrists - both heresiarchs and false saviours - will prefer a "spiritualised" Christianity (the version back then was as crude as Docetism, it may rise again) and refer to true Christianity and certain true Christian doctrines as "mythology" - or even "pagan mythology". I have heard some apostate "Catholic" Bishops have resorted to calling a literal belief in Genesis 1 as written "Pagan Mythology".
Hans Georg Lundahl
Bibl. M. Audoux
St John Eudes
19-VIII-2015
PS: Let's worship the Sacred Heart and not the figures of mythology - but let's not accept to call all "myths" "lies".
http://www.biblecodewisdom.com/code/antichrist-myth/4
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