AboutGriff Ruby Expertise I focus on the "why" and "how" questions of the Faith and one`s need for the Church to overcome sin, live the life God wishes us, and to become what God wants us to be. I seek to provide insight and information such that you are then able to see for yourself the answer to your questions.
Experience Years of extensive research, thought, and prayerful meditation on many of the issues that trouble Catholics today, taught catechetical classes to teenagers and adults, answered many questions already.
Question Dear Griff: Why are Catholics amillennialists?
Sincerely:
Neil
Answer Sorry for the delay.
Amillenialism seems to be the consensus of the early Fathers of the Church, once several competing views from the earliest days seem to have come to be variously consolidated and/or rejected. There is no denying that it has taken some theological development to come up with a cohesive understanding of the various comments in Revelation regarding this "millennial" issue, since the few individual Scriptural passages on the subject seem to be rather vague and at first open to several interpretations, but some interpretations do not pan out in the face of other Scriptures or other facts of known Divine Revelation, or even of plain ordinary facts of history or human nature.
The Kingdom of God was among us in Christ and His disciples (the nucleus and original "seed" of the Church), and so the Kingdom of God is among us now. Several parables also point to circumstances such as ours in which there are both the righteous and the unrighteous, and that they must grow together until the final harvest time when one can be finally separated from the other. I recommend the Wikipedia article about Amillennialism for some helpful background on this topic.
