Does the bible say anything about time travel?

Question

I was just wondering...

Answer 1

Not time TRAVEL. But it does speak about the "manipulation" of time, which would have implications for time travel.

King Hezekiah who was ill, asked God for 15 more years to live. The prophet Isaiah informed Hezekiah that God was going to turn back the hands of the sundial as a sign that God would keep His promise to do so. In those ancient days, the sundial was their "clock". But it told "true time" because the sun's shadow fell upon the markings on the stone dial. This means that God caused time (or the sun, which for us marks "time") to go backward.

Another incident of time manipulation involves God stopping the sun's rotation for Joshua, leader of Israel's early army after Moses' demise. For an entire day the sun stood still in the sky so that the Israeli troops could win the battle against their enemies. Not God's first miracle and certainly not His last for Israel.

In any case, both of these incidents, documented through Israel's historical records, and scientifically by NASA's scientists, show that time did act in a non-linear manner, contrary to what we normally expect.Ramifications of this hold out hope for backwards time travel and also manipulation of time's flow.

Since it was God who did this in scripture, and man has not reached the point technologically where he can do that yet, it may be centuries before we attain the feat. The discovery of Zero- point Gravity by French scientist Alcubierre in 1994 could be a key.

Remember, years ago people said if man was meant to fly he would have wings. People laughed at Columbus. And they thought the moon was a place we'd never set foot on. "Yesterday's science fiction is today's science fact."

Answer 2

There are several instances where prophets were not only permitted a vison of the future but to also interact with angelic beings in those future events to make inquires. John ( the revelator ) was taken up throgh a door into the future of Heaven to witness the tribulation first hand from that perspective for example. Quantum physics and space/time theories actually were inspired by Bile passages. The passages are suttle and easy to miss but thier there. Haveing said this I don't think significant time travel into the future would be permissable to man without the Creator's support. I do believe time travel into the past on the other hand wouldn't constitue a violation of God's purpose so long as we're carefull not to alter past outcomes.

Answer 3

Time travel would only work if the Space Time Continuum was like a series of pages in a book or a series of frames of a movie. This would be a special book or movie that would be flipping through not once but continually wafting through like wheat blowing in the wind, each stalk being a fraction of a second repeating, but passing it's info on to the next.
I don't think that it is reasonable to assume that there are continous 'replayings' of time on and on. Why would this even seem right to anyone I don't know.
Not thinking of the space-time continuum in this weird way involves the time machine reversing all the energy spent in the entire universe to the point that you wish to go to, and then 'hoping' that it is all going to 'replay' the exact same way ... very unlikely. When you think about the processes that would have to be involved ... you'd have to be God to accomplish them.

Answer 4

The phrase "time travel" is bastardized terminology, meaning that it isn't legitimate, in that it implies that objects travel through a substance or a thing referred to as time. If you mean what I think you mean, then that isn't what occurs. Also, to answer your question, when people in the Bible are being shown events which are supposed to happen at some future time, then one might interpret that what you are inferring is what occurs, but otherwise I can't think of any passages that hint at it.

Answer 5

Well, there are several references to time having no meaning to god, that sort of thing -- but no, nothing specifically mentioning time travel.

You do understand that despite some scientists admitting that it's theoretically possible, that it's practically impossible, right? If it were possible, we would have already been visited by people from the future. Since there's no evidence that we have, there's no evidence that actual time travel will ever be of any practical use.

:)

Answer 6

Sort of:

Joshua 10:12-13

Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.


Jim

Answer 7

If it had ever had information about time travel, physics or anything scientific, the early Christian church would have edited those parts until they were completely perverted into some mythological nonsense.

Answer 8

No it does not. I don't think it will ever be possible. I would like to travel back in time and flea and lice dip all the animals that got on the ark. Kill those mosquitos too!

Answer 9

Yes, The apostle John was asked to come up hither, and would be shown the things to come.
He was on the island of Patmos about 96 A.D

Answer 10

Bible does not telling time travel. Bible only telling you to clean up your soul to heaven.