The Antichrist, According to Irenaeus of Lyons

By Richie Cooley

This booklet reviews the sections in Against Heresies that deal with the prophetic Antichrist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richie Cooley
• Release date: May 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005351274

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The Antichrist,

According to Irenaeus of Lyons

by Richie Cooley

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Richie Cooley (2022); edited: (November, 2022)

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Table of Contents

I. Spaceships or Spirits—or Whatever

II. An Introduction to Irenaeus

III. The Antichrist of Irenaeus

Works Cited

Works by Me

Before getting started, let’s review a few notes…

*New Testament Scripture is taken from the English Majority Text Version. Translated by Paul Esposito. Copyright © 2011.

*British spelling is often used, except for the quoted material, which normally employs U.S. spelling.

*Divine pronouns are normally not capitalized, unless they appear that way in Bible versions or other quotes.

*As a general rule, words that appear in brackets within quotes are not found in the original texts, and were added by the translators or are my personal comments, etc.

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For error is plausible, and bears a resemblance to the truth, but requires to be disguised; while truth is without disguise, and therefore has been entrusted to children. -- Irenaeus

I. Spaceships or Spirits—or Whatever

Religious/philosophical belief has slowly turned into nothing more than postcard collecting. It is simply a mundane, relaxing hobby of no great consequence. Just as a traveller may be sure to visit many local shops and pick up sundry snaps of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre—just so many religious people like to loosely explore a sect on a Saturday afternoon and gather a new print or two to put into their sophistry scrapbook. A very popular book I recently read has really brought this hideous practice to the fore—over-against the backdrop of ufology.

The work is entitled Sky People by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke. She is a North American professor with Central American roots who travelled throughout the Maya world (and other places) to document close encounters (and whatnot). Think Everyday Use by Alice Walker.

As a fan of ufology I think it is a very worthwhile read. It’s not often that something very unique and very primary-source is published these days. Mostly there are just strange collections of government/NASA conspiracy rants seemingly fuelled by methamphetamine and Wikipedia.

There are a least three noteworthy takeaways from the book.

Firstly, even in very remote, isolated places, people for many decades have been undergoing the exact same UFO/supernatural experiences as has been documented throughout the more well-trod hotspots in the industrialized world. Secondly, the phenomenon appears to be slightly more powerful in these areas; i.e., the experiences seem to be a bit more pervasive and a bit bolder. For example, many close encounters of the third and fourth kinds have been reported in detail without the crutch of hypnosis. That’s very interesting. You might say that the indigenous religious practices/beliefs of Central America make hypnosis rather obsolete (although there are still occasional blackouts and missing time); thus, hypnosis must simply be shamanism for yuppies. Interesting—yet not altogether shocking.

The third takeaway is the one I want to linger on for a bit, as it has much to do with contemporary attitudes towards religion.

Still thinking for a minute about ufology, the only downside to the book is that it is high on the practice of list-compiling. As I’ve complained in the past, I don’t think we will