Why did Jesus come only 2,000 years ago? If Jesus was divine what did he appear so late in human history and miss the bulk of the human timeline. This video discusses the reasons early Christians like the theologian Paulus Orosius offered to try and explain the obvious weaknesses in a late arrival. Why a young earth means Christians only need to explain Jesus not appearing up to 5,000 years earlier. Why if the Roman Empire was a necessary for his arrival he took so long to engineer it into existence.