Technology and Christianity?

Question

As technology is advancing as much as it is, everyone will soon be able to do the 'miracles' that Jesus is reported to have done.

Is it not a fair question to ask then, whether Jesus could have been a traveller from the future, who went (or will go) back into the first century on many occasions to try to spread peace and love in order to avert some sort of major incident in his own time. Like perhaps World War 3 for example?

It's an interesting thought.....

I hear that they're getting close to developing what Trekkies would know as a 'replicator'

And the doomsday clock is ticking.

I'm only basing this whole question on possibility, extrapolation and the nature of what I have read.

Plus many people have already been brought back from the dead. After death there is a short period when it is possible to revive a person, even though they are dead. Logically, we may soon be able to do it after 3 days.

Answer 1

Sounds like a good plot for a book or something...hm...well, I like this new twist on it, though I believe that Jesus was a good man (born into that time period) and did many great things...but I think that maybe the Bible twisted his exploits a bit...who knows, anyway, you're right, tech is advancing very rapidly, but we won't be able to bring people back from the dead, but still..I do like your thought. Oh and by the way that Christianity is going, and how the world is right now..if he went back in time to stop WW III from happening, he did a VERY bad job at it now didn't he?

Answer 2

A miracle is an explanation used when we don't know how something marvellous was done. So I largely agree with you.

However there's a lot of knowledge that people used to have, that has been forgotten or overlooked. I found that Heron of Alexander (10-70AD) documented in his Pneumatica.many ways which would cover the "turning of water into wine" .Very likely that he compiled his book from older knowledge/sources, which were quite likely held by the Greek priesthood as hidden/Occult knowledge (Occult simply means hidden, and has nothing per-se to do with Satanism)

I think it's is a POSSIBLE explanation for the events at the wedding in Canaan.

Doesn't matter IF a miracle was a "trick". The demonstration would still have been a miracle to those who didn't know how it was done

Answer 3

It is a mixed up question. First and last, which miracle can technology do? Make water into wine with no additives, make the lame walk and the dead rise by His word, feed 5,000 from 5 loaves and 5 fish in a remote place or walk on water with nothing attached. Can't think of a single miracle technology is close to. Before you say the answer just hates science, I have a degree in physics and worked as an engineer. Don't hate science, but I do question scientific assumptions that a self fulfilling.

Answer 4

Yes, in all likelihood we will be able to perform those so called miracles. In my opinion Jesus, or rather Christ, was a highly evolved entity from a civilisation far head from us not only technologically speaking but spiritually as well. I'm not quite sure about time travelling but if you think about it, when you take into account the relative distance between galaxies and universes and the time it takes to travel from one spot to another, then there is a difference in time-space that would amount to past and future. I'm probably not clear enough.
Anyway, it's not completely technology nor Christianity/religion. Maybe a blend of both.

Answer 5

The initial premise is flawed ( we cannot assume that techonology will enable us to perform those specific miracles) so there is no answer to the question.

However, my opinion is that Jesus was not a traveller from the future but that he was a man of his own time and place.

Answer 6

I'd say that while it *may be* possible, it is rather unlikely. Just the same, this is one of many threats posed to Christianity as technology develops. The more evident advancements become, the more difficult it will be for Christians to hold up their end of the argument; we are receiving more and more details of the past that question Christianity's beginning.

Answer 7

miracle is defined as something that is humanly impossible. someone walking on water, resurrecting the dead, healing the sick with just words tec. these are what i know to be miracles.
science most at times discovers things that are already in existence and make something out of them. every scientific accomplishment has a possibility with respect to human ability. rising the dead with just some few commands aint possible with humans and therefore qualify as miracle.

Answer 8

A miracle, in the strict sense, is defined as something done by the omnipotence of God that is completely outside the order of nature.

So no, because of that, as far as technology may be able to take us, it will never be able to perform miracles, because technology is confined to the workings of nature.





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Answer 9

Sounds like several of the orginial Star Trek episodes.

Live Long And Prosper, earthling :)
Lady Morgana )0(

Answer 10

I tend to view God as being head architect, master chemist and physicist, who shared that knowledge with Jesus.

God and Jesus both said it was with in our grasp to do what they do (Be Like Gods).

Think about it. If you were just 6,000 years old how much would you know. I mean you would have studied with Galileo, Newton, Einstein and all the others.

With 6,000 years experience you'd dwarf the best thinkers of today with you wisdom of years.

It's being finite that holds us back.