The Bible as a primer on time travel?
OK, now that I have a sense of how folks in here might react to such a topic, it's high time to introduce it if for no other reason than to irritate.
I have often been struck by some of the wording found in scripture that discusses God's perspective on chronological matters. "A thousand years is as one day and one day is as a thousand years" from God's perspective. There are several verses that speak to this sort of thing. Not all are chiastic expressions like this example, but they all give the feeling that God doesn't experience time as we do. We get the idea that God experiences existence as an eternal now, as in it is both a thousand years ago and today at the same time. If we assume for the sake of argument that my faith is not misplaced and the cosmology of the Bible is reasonably trustworthy, what might this say about time travel possibilities? If such a state is possible in the universe, to be able to touch 3500 B.C. with the left hand and 2005 A.D. with the right without having to stretch very hard, how do you do it?
OK, now that I have a sense of how folks in here might react to such a topic, it's high time to introduce it if for no other reason than to irritate.
I have often been struck by some of the wording found in scripture that discusses God's perspective on chronological matters. "A thousand years is as one day and one day is as a thousand years" from God's perspective. There are several verses that speak to this sort of thing. Not all are chiastic expressions like this example, but they all give the feeling that God doesn't experience time as we do. We get the idea that God experiences existence as an eternal now, as in it is both a thousand years ago and today at the same time. If we assume for the sake of argument that my faith is not misplaced and the cosmology of the Bible is reasonably trustworthy, what might this say about time travel possibilities? If such a state is possible in the universe, to be able to touch 3500 B.C. with the left hand and 2005 A.D. with the right without having to stretch very hard, how do you do it?