Reply #15: No, Nein, Non, never [View All]

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Excerpt from:

Caritas - Papal Office
by His Holiness Pope Pius XIII

Millenniumism
We are forced to believe the words of the Apostles Creed:

“Our Lord...seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty, from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia gives the following critique of Millenniumism:

“The essentials are the following points: The early return of Christ in all His power and glory, the establishment of an earthly kingdom with the just, the resuscitation of the deceased saints and their participation in the glorious reign, the destruction of the powers hostile to God,...

“The roots of the belief in a glorious kingdom, party natural, partly supernatural, are found in the hopes of the Jews for a temporal Messiah and in the Jewish apocalyptic...”

The author in the Encyclopedia corrects the above error as follows:

“There is no trace of chiliasm (millenniumism) to be found in the Gospels or in the Epistles of St. Paul; everything moves in the spiritual and religious sphere; even the judgment bear this stamp.”

http://www.truecatholic.org/pope/car-199901.htm