imago*futura: C.S. Lewis and the Delay of Parousia
How do you respond to critics that point out that the NT seems to expect the return of Christ right away, but that his delay has been delayed a long time?
I was almost intrigued by the preterist position when I was newly saved due to a tract entitled, "Can God tell time?" that hypothesized that all those verses about the near return of Christ really happened in 70 AD. But other scholars simply say that Jesus and/or the Apostles were mistaken and expected Jesus to return within their own generation.
I am anticipating answers fuller than II Peter's "...one day is as a thousand years...."
How do you respond to critics that point out that the NT seems to expect the return of Christ right away, but that his delay has been delayed a long time?
I was almost intrigued by the preterist position when I was newly saved due to a tract entitled, "Can God tell time?" that hypothesized that all those verses about the near return of Christ really happened in 70 AD. But other scholars simply say that Jesus and/or the Apostles were mistaken and expected Jesus to return within their own generation.
I am anticipating answers fuller than II Peter's "...one day is as a thousand years...."