vicarius filii dei = 666 denied by Bruinsma this week in the Netherlands

 

by koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)

Kyungpook National University

Sangju Campus

South Korea

conjoint lecturer of Avondale College

Australia

24 October 2009

 

Wednesday 21 October 2009

Article of Willem Bouwman on the pope as Antichrist of Revelation 13

 

In the Dutch newspaper called Nederlands Dagblad of 21 October 2009, an article appeared by a member of the Seventh-day Adventist church, Willem Bouwman, that took an old book, written in 1931 by Edmund D?schler about the role of the papacy as Antichrist of Revelation 13.

 

Thursday 22 October 2009

Dr. Reinder Bruinsma responded to the Newspaper

 

Nederlands Dagblad of 22 October 2009 apologizing that the public must not think Adventists still believe this.

 

English Translation

"I fear that a large quantity of readers comfortably may think that the sphere of the article is even now applicable upon this church [modern Dutch SDA]. In the Netherlands this protestant church keeps good contacts with other christian churches" Dr. Reinder Bruinsma

 

Dutch Original

"Ik vrees dat nogal wat lezers gemakkelijk kunnen denken dat de sfeer van dit artikel ook nu nog op deze kerk van toepassing zal zjin. In Nederland onderhoudt deze protestantse kerk echter goede contacted met andere christeljike kerken." Dr. Reinder Bruinsma.

 

For the article by Bouwman, he paid 818,16 Euros and for the response the next day by dr. Reinder Bruinsma to deny the Pope a place in Revelation 13 as Antichrist, Bruinsma paid 92,97 Euros.

 

van wyk notes:

Seventh-day Adventists strongly believe that the antichrist of Revelation 13 indicated by the number 666 is the meditorial title vicarius filii dei in Latin numerical counting exacting 666, that the papacy is called with throughout the history of the catholic church and that the variation on the same theme, vicarius christi is just another way of saying the same thing: the papacy takes the place of Christ on earth for the salvation of mankind, salvation only through the clergy's hands dishing out the bread, superstitiously believed to be the real body of Christ. The view of dr. Bruinsma is his own and with ecumenical tendencies revealed by himself in other articles and books by him (see Walter Veith), one can safely say that he does not represent the view of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

In the light of the new book release by prof. Edwin de Kock on this issue of vicarius filii dei = 666, which will appear shortly by this historian, Bruinsma may have acted too soon without establishing evidence properly.