Wouldn't time travel settle most of our religious disagreements?

Question

Seriously, someone should get on this...

Answer 1

Irrelevant.

Time travel isn't possible.

Answer 2

It would settle some, worsen others, and create whole new ones that we can't imagine right now.

Let's say you went back and filmed the crucifixion, we'll assume that it happened almost exactly as depicted in the bible, what have you actually proven? That a guy got nailed to some two-by-fours, we knew that without the time travel. The details are still a matter of faith, and open to interpretation. You would answer more questions if you could get proof of some of Jesus's miracles, or, better yet, footage of him talking to the disciples after the resurection. But, even then, some would say that the evidence was phony or that it was an example of really good early stage magic. All this is assuming you find things exactly as depicted in the bible, if you were to find things otherwise, even to the smallest degree, no beleiver would accept that the time-travel evidence was legit. They would claim, and honestly beleive, that you were either mistaken, maybe you got the date wrong, or actively tryign to deceive them as an agent of the devil.

Basically, faith has no relationship to logic or proof, that is why it is "faith" and not "knowledge".

Answer 3

You most like wouldn't be able to travel no further or backwards then you are capable of living.

The roman empire kept records of Jesus. So, his existence and death is unquestionable. Even the Jews admit that he existed they just don't believe that he was a real prophet or the messiah.
specially because he was poor and against their love for money and worldly things.

Answer 4

First, your premise is in doubt. If theism generally, and Christianity in particular, is true, reverse time travel would probably never occur. Time is the irreversible unfolding of the will of God. Second, if you are making the point that gathering first person, empirical evidence concerning major religious figures would eliminate disputes, then the answer is more complex. In many cases, no, the disputes would continue because they are embedded almost exclusively in the conflict of ideas rather than persons and events. For example, Islam and Buddhism would still be diametrically opposed, without regard to the human who introduced them.

Christianity, by its own admission, is different. Paul specifically taught that if the resurrection did not occur then the whole thing was false. Christianity, more than any other religion, is vitally linked to the trueness of one historical person and the events surrounding His life. Therefore, first-person, empirical evidence that positively falsified Christian claims, as recorded in the New Testament, such as the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, would reduce Christianity to just a minor variation on Jewish religious philosophy, and probably not a viable cause of strong dispute, hardly worth arguing about let alone dying for.

On the other hand, such first-person, empirical evidence might well confirm all these facts. What then? The dispute would be as it now is. You may ask, how can that be? If the people of the first century actually witnessed these events, would they not have uniformly hailed Jesus as the true God-man and welcomed Him with open arms, affirming Him with such a vast body of historical evidence that no one could ever dispute it? Not according to Jesus. Jesus told the story of a man who died and went to hell. In hell, he asked for a chance to come back from the dead to go warn his five brothers of the terrors of hell. He did not get that chance, because, as Jesus said, even if someone came back from the dead carrying this message, it would be rejected by those who reject the Scriptures. Jesus is really saying that first-person, empirical evidence is not enough to overcome unbelief. Therefore, whether by time travel or by any other means, material effects in a material universe can only give evidence of material realities, typically inconclusive at best.

This means that if Jesus did rise from the dead, such that a neutral first-person observer would have to at least agree with the apostolic description of material effects (a Jewish carpenter named Jesus actually lived and taught such and such, got framed for treason, was killed by Roman torture on a cross, was wrapped for burial and placed in a tomb, but was subsequently seen alive by as many as five-hundred first-person eye-witnesses, then was also seen rising into the sky without any apparent technological assistance), such facts would still be subject to interpretation. They would be hotly contested by those who had something to lose if they were true at face value. They would be so passionately believed by first-person observers sympathetic to Jesus, that those observers would likely never recant their story, even if threatened with death. This is precisely what those claiming to be first-person observers actually did, to a man. Therefore, even if time travel were possible, which I do not think it is, the dispute would remain, and would look exactly as it does today.

Answer 5

I see your point, but with the mess we make of things living in the present, the thought of the mess we could make going into the past is more than a little scary. You know, the whole "change the time continuum" thing.

Or were you thinking of just being able to observe?

Answer 6

Interestingly enough no.

There would be those who would not accept the truth, regardless of whether Christ truly existed or didn't.

And so these people would find themselves alienated.

There'd probably be some sort of religious civil war ;D.

p.s; if you're wondering why atheists would deny real proof of the existence of jesus christ, they'd claim it was faked.

Vice versa for proving that jesus christ didn't exist.

Answer 7

i believe this is forbidden...by GOD.
why? OK..would you want atheist or satanism go back in time or to the future and destroy?
YET>.on other hand.
GOD is not limited by TIME.
example..when you bake something.
in the beginning it was a mess of stuff
as time goes by and at the right time..it's over..or it's time..to come out of the oven.
same with our time..when it expired
that is it..it is finish.
so the precious gift is TIME.
and HOW we use out TIME for self pleasure or gain
vs giving of SELF for other
will be reward forever and ever and ever in heaven. or hell.

Answer 8

Wouldn't it be funny if you could, and it turned out that due to the expansion of the universe everybody was about 1/10th your height?

Answer 9

No. If people time travelled and saw Jesus didn't exist they'll say "It's a test from God" and still believe in him.

Answer 10

Not only would it settle it..but the dinosaurs and Big Boom theory.

Answer 11

You get right on that
Once you have it we'll talk

I want to go back to and get the lottery numbers though