Because of Jesus' death on the cross, I doubt humanity will ever invent a time travel device where you can alter the past. God would want Jesus' death to be the end of sin, and not allow anyone( man or spirit), to go back in time and stop it from happening.
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According to you, it didn't work, so I think that, for God at least, it wouldn't be a bad idea.
Wasn't the best proof against back ward time travel the lack of people from the future? You'd guess at least one person could make a credible claim and proof that he really was from the future. And since no rule remains unbroken, we'd have at least one of those people. Unless others travel after him/her and prevent the revealing...
Forward travel should be possible. It's called stasis. You just need to shut down the body without damaging it so it can be "rebooted" at a time in the future.
@NotMe:
Perhaps you can't travel to a point before the machine was built? I.e. you have a stable wormhole (MT-Type) joining points A and B. Leave the A-end at home and shoot the B-end round a nearby star at 99% of the speed of light. When the B-end gets back, less time will have passed for it than for the A-end due to relativistic time dilation (say 1 year instead of 10), so anything that falls in the B-end 'now' comes out of the A-end 9 years earlier. You can now travel into the past, but only to points in time where there's an A-end to emerge from, hence never to a time before the machine was built.
Thats gotta be the worst argument against time travel ever. Time travel could work with split dimensions, though that's somewhat unlikely, or as David B. stated which is much more likely. Of course, backwards time travel may just not work at all, but not because God doesn't want us to save Jesus from being crucified >_>
nobody wrote: "that should be the plot for back to the future IV"
Pitch:
Includes gags where Marty uses CPR on Lazarus, introduces the fish paste sandwich at the feeding of the 5000, remembers the fizzy cola sweets in his pocket when they run out of wine at a marriage in Cana, and rides his famous hoverboard over the waters to rescue some fishermen.
At the end, Marty is crucified and left for dead in the tomb, only to be rescued 3 days later by Doc Brown, who deciphered the clues Marty put in the 'sermon on the mount'. As Doc (his white lab coat flapping) and Marty zoom off in the flying DeLorean, we pull back to show several of his shocked followers. One whispers, "He has ascended into heaven." to which another replies "No shit, Sherlock!" (a phrase Marty has repeated at various points in the film). Roll credits.
@David B.
I see it working better as Bill and Ted's Holy Journey .
"Dude, your Dad sent you to Earth just so a bunch of gladiators could kill you? Man, I thought sucked when my Dad wanted to send me to military school!"
Call the Chronoguard!
Is he saying that if time travel is never invented, it was god that prevented it?
According to you, it didn't work, so I think that, for God at least, it wouldn't be a bad idea.
my question exactly!
David B. I hope somebody makes this movie ...
Ow. Ow. Ow...
The stupid.
It hurts.
You had better hope that that time machine never is invented, because any deliberate change, and even the accidental and incidental variations in the normal course of events of which there are hundreds in a day for just one individual will result in a totally different population and indeed, a different shape to the world as we know it. You JamesSager3 will never have been born and will have been denied heaven.
@The Jamo
Because the fine print is that it only applies to Christians who wanna be as big of Jerkasses as they want, and get away without having to Acknowledge that their savior would bitchslap them for their behavior...because they are not perfect, but forgiven.
I take it that JamesSager3 has never read Michael Moorcock's story, Behold The Man, in which a time traveller from the future encounters Jesus, only to find him a drooling idiot, & that in order to preserve "history", takes his place, & as a result, dies on the cross...
There's a short story called "Crucifixion Variations" by Lawrence Person that explores this issue to some extent. Not travelling back in time, but viewing back in time, and what happens to a Christian who wants to see the crucifiction and its aftermath.
Good story. Available in "The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction".
Couldn't He just make the birth and the crucification of Jesus fixed points in time so that, no matter what you do, those events will always happen regardless (hey, maybe all those continuity errors in the Bible are due to time travellers interfering with biblical events!)? What about time periods after Jesus?
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