I don’t think that would actually help. I recall, back when I was a christian I read an overview of various eschatologies—and decided that none of the views had any appreciable chance of being correct. IMO, people take the most attractive eschatology they’ve heard and read it into the text. Arguing from the text can’t change their minds, because the text is not actually the source of their belief (even though they strongly believe that it is). Changing my parents’ minds about a point of doctrine seems (to me) to be on the same order of difficulty as the original problem.
I don’t think that would actually help. I recall, back when I was a christian I read an overview of various eschatologies—and decided that none of the views had any appreciable chance of being correct. IMO, people take the most attractive eschatology they’ve heard and read it into the text. Arguing from the text can’t change their minds, because the text is not actually the source of their belief (even though they strongly believe that it is). Changing my parents’ minds about a point of doctrine seems (to me) to be on the same order of difficulty as the original problem.