Critical Questions (from an Idealist)

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It is hoped that the reader will gain a few good ideas from this lengthy reply to these questions. I think the reader would be cheated if it were done any other way. There is always much more to say. Keep this in mind, though, the main thing a fulfilled view (Preterism) has to offer the rest of the Body of Christ is the Word-derived means by which the debilitating mindset of an ever-imminent doomsday-Tribulation can be dispelled and thus allow Christian youth to sensibly plan for long, fruitful lives in Christ’s everlasting Kingdom among men. They must know that Tomorrow is a blank page that God has invited us to co-author together with Him based upon what we do with the Word of God Today. And Jesus is the Word, John 1:1, 14.
Question: If we are now in the New Heavens and New Earth post 70AD, then does that mean that the Old Heavens and Old Earth are still present since the non-Christian cannot enter in the New Heavens and New Earth?
Question: By seeing this as simply a historic process, (rather than an internal process within the Christian), do you not miss the entire message of Jesus of cleansing the inside? Do you not make it as if we were automatically clean from the point of 70AD forward?
Question: From the point of 70AD forward, we can share in the hope that there is now no more judgment or condemnation? That all ended in 70AD?
Question: A whole doctrinal system based on a temporal or historic eschatology places all fulfillment externally. This is much worse than Universalism. Do you not see that those external things are just a outward show of the process within us to flee evil and bondage and enter into his rest. An externally focused eschatology is Universalism. It can be future focused or past focused. EVEN WORSE, IT IS A PHARISEE(ISM) ESCHATOLOGY WITH NO INWARD SUBSTANCE!
Question: Is not your whole doctrinal system is based on a temporal or historic eschatology which places all fulfillment externally, anyway?
Question: Is this not much worse than Universalism?
Question: Do you not see that those external things are just a outward show of the process within us to flee evil and bondage and enter into his rest?
Question: Is not an externally focused eschatology Universalism?