How do YEC's Respond to Alexander Pruss's New Testament Argument Against a Young Earth
score:4
At some point, Christ will return. That may be the "end time", but it is not the beginning of the "end times". The end times refers to a series of cataclysmic events prophesied in Scripture whose duration is unknown. When they begin, what they are, how they proceed, and how long they will last is the subject of the study of eschatology.
The Alexander Pruss argument is a piece of evidence arguing against some of these eschatological theories, but others are consistent with the idea that the "end times" began shortly after Jesus rose from the dead.
Full or partial Preterists would hold that the end times includes the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD, therefore the period between Jesus' resurrection and the start of the end times was forty years.
Some Premillennial theories view the "end times" as still ahead of us. Those theories may not have a good answer to the challenge.
Amillennial theories in which the church is symbolically walking through the end times but there is no literal millennium may or may not have trouble with challenge, because they may or may not teach that the end times have already begun.
Historicist theories (one of which I subscribe to) believe that the events in Revelation stretch out over thousands of years and many have already occurred. Thus for a historicist, the end times began with the Roman persecutions of Christians. Many of the Reformation thinkers subscribed to variations of historicism. (Their timelines have since been invalidated, but newer historicist theories can accommodate the more recent history. 20/20 hinsight, you know.)
There are other theories. You would need to tackle each, one by one, to see how each addresses this problem.
More post
- 📝 Is there any Method in Methodism that people practice?
- 📝 Why did "versus populum" (instead of "ad orientem") become commonplace after Vatican II?
- 📝 The right to read a Catholic Church's sacramental register?
- 📝 In which other churches do Roman Catholics recognize apostolic succession?
- 📝 What does Catholicism teach about 'The Massacre of the Innocents'?
- 📝 Is there a name for the belief that God is not omniscient, but rather is "learning" how to deal with humanity?
- 📝 How is the ‘Resurrection of the Holy Ones’ in Mt.27:51-53 understood by those who consider it a literal, historical event?
- 📝 Why aren't the Biblical Apocrypha included in the protestant Bible?
- 📝 According to the Catholic Church, will people be able to have private conversations with God at any time in Heaven?
- 📝 Does the act of sex constitute marriage in God's eyes?
- 📝 What is the Biblical basis for "Do Least Harm" or "Do Greatest Good"?
- 📝 Do baptists believe baptism did not pre-date Jesus Christ?
- 📝 What is the significance of verb choices in Genesis 1?
- 📝 Who was affected by the plague in Numbers 25?
- 📝 What do Christians believe Kaneh Bosem translates to?
- 📝 Why would witnesses of the crucifixion think Jesus was calling for Elijah?
- 📝 Does Irenaeus indicate that people were raised from the dead in the 2nd century?
- 📝 What is the difference between the Life that Christ gives and the Life that Wisdom brings?
- 📝 Did Mary lay her hands on all the Apostles in the Upper Room to pour out the Holy Spirit anointing?
- 📝 Are there any churches that do not accept the teachings of Paul?
- 📝 In the Catholic Church, what makes something illicit vs. invalid?
- 📝 Is Jesus seen as both the Passover Lamb and Goat(s) of the Atonement in any Protestant Theology?
- 📝 How are doxologies formed for common prayers?
- 📝 What can be the Christian defence of the argument from J.L. Schellenberg’s “Divine Hiddenness”?
- 📝 How are angels and humans different?
- 📝 What hymns about death were common in the early 1400s?
- 📝 Historically, what would happen if a church could not afford or provide wine for the sake of the Eucharist?
- 📝 Were there women leaders in the early church?
- 📝 What is the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God?
- 📝 According to Catholicism did "Sacred Tradition" include Gnostic sources?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 How do YEC's Respond to Alexander Pruss's New Testament Argument Against a Young Earth
- 📝 What is the New Testament argument against Gnosticism?
- 📝 How do continuationists respond to the 'closed canon' argument against the continuation of special revelations and sign gifts?
- 📝 How were the books of the New Testament chosen?
- 📝 How many New Testament manuscripts do we really have?
- 📝 How does the New Testament define a Christian and a non-Christian, a brother in Christ and not a brother in Christ?
- 📝 How many laws from Old Testament are still valid in New Testament?
- 📝 How many New Testament Manuscripts do we have from the period between the first century and the fourth century?
- 📝 How do non-trinitarians respond to the argument that God is love necessitates the eternity of the Son?
- 📝 How many times does the New Testament quote the Old Testament?
- 📝 How do Latter-day Saints respond to the non-LDS argument that Joseph Smith's death was not comparable to the martyrdom of the ancient apostles?
- 📝 Does the New Testament have any mention of Kolob and if not, how come?
- 📝 How do Continuationists respond to the "go empty hospitals" objection against the gift of healing?
- 📝 How do non-LDS Christians respond to the stylometry argument for the authenticity of the Book of Mormon?
- 📝 How did literature contemporaneous to the New Testament understand the "Second Death"?
- 📝 How many different people in the New Testament are called or claim to be "Brothers" or "Sisters" of Jesus?
- 📝 How do Trinitarians respond to syllogistic arguments against the divinity of Jesus?
- 📝 Plato's Cave Allegory - How to respond to the argument in favor of ignorance?
- 📝 Has a substantial case been made from the New Testament that burning heretics is against the will of the Spirit?
- 📝 How has war been justified within Christianity, with respect to the New Testament and preferably the Gospels?
- 📝 How do non-LDS Christians respond to the LDS argument that Joseph Smith died as a Martyr for God, just like the Apostles?
- 📝 How can one counter-argue this argument against the existence of God?
- 📝 How many commandments in the New Testament are in the imperative in the Greek?
- 📝 How should we call a book with New Testament and Psalms?
- 📝 How might one categorize all of the books of the New Testament by theme?
- 📝 Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
- 📝 How do proponents of the Fine Tuning argument for God, refute the puddle comparison?
- 📝 How should one reconcile a wrong against another person?
- 📝 What is the Protestant argument against the doctrine of Purgatory?
- 📝 Who was St. Joseph's Father? The New Testament seems to give two answers