The End of the World
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This is a quote from Michael D. Obrien's book: Remembrance of the Future. He affirms the traditional Catholic Christian view that rejects the perfectibility of man - rejecting that man is becoming better and better through a human evolution until perfection is reached in the "Omega Point." - Jim McCrea
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Orthodoxy [right believing Christianity] maintains that the eschaton, the culmination of history as a climax of sin and error, will be resolved only by the interjection of the transcendent God intervening in history in an extraordinary manner. By contrast, the new theologians attempt to "immanentise the eschaton," as a purely historical process. In brushing aside consideration of the real meaning of the Book of Revelation, they deny that the New Jerusalem will be given by God after the devastation of the world by human folly. The New Jerusalem of neo-pagan theologians is to be created by man, here and now. This reveals an extremely optimistic view of human nature.
Chesterton, reading the despair in much of modern optimism, frequently argued against pessimism and optimism. They bore no relationship to authentic Christian hope, which must always have the courage to see things as they really are. Christian realism is apocalyptic, for it stands ever waiting and watchful for the hour when the Bridegroom [Jesus] will arrive.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church
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This is a quote from Michael D. Obrien's book: Remembrance of the Future. He affirms the traditional Catholic Christian view that rejects the perfectibility of man - rejecting that man is becoming better and better through a human evolution until perfection is reached in the "Omega Point." - Jim McCrea
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Orthodoxy [right believing Christianity] maintains that the eschaton, the culmination of history as a climax of sin and error, will be resolved only by the interjection of the transcendent God intervening in history in an extraordinary manner. By contrast, the new theologians attempt to "immanentise the eschaton," as a purely historical process. In brushing aside consideration of the real meaning of the Book of Revelation, they deny that the New Jerusalem will be given by God after the devastation of the world by human folly. The New Jerusalem of neo-pagan theologians is to be created by man, here and now. This reveals an extremely optimistic view of human nature.
Chesterton, reading the despair in much of modern optimism, frequently argued against pessimism and optimism. They bore no relationship to authentic Christian hope, which must always have the courage to see things as they really are. Christian realism is apocalyptic, for it stands ever waiting and watchful for the hour when the Bridegroom [Jesus] will arrive.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church
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675 Before Christ's second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.573 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth574 will unveil the "mystery of iniquity" in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. the supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.575
676 The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgement. the Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism,576 especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism.577
677 The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.578 The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven.579 God's triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgement after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.580
Note ** There is a conceit in Western society that holds that man is evolving and that this generation is wiser than generations past, in throwing off traditional religious and moral principles, and as a result man is fulfilling his true potential. But the reality is that he has fallen into a great darkness, with the chastisements of God which are coming which necessarily follow such apostasy.
Note ** The rise of satanic evil, such as ISIS, in this present day, belies the idea of the perfectibility of man.
Also see The One Purpose of Creation
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