How do YEC's Respond to Alexander Pruss's New Testament Argument Against a Young Earth
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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.
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