IS TIME TRAVEL A SIN?

[Kevinw05]

Edit: I am sorry about this comment I left before. This stemmed from being treated that way from others.

 

[dms1972]

I don't believe its possible to time travel in the sense of leaping years ahead, or back in time.

But to run with the idea a little, what if it happened involuntarily like in the film The Final Countdown where a aircraft carrier gets caught in a time warp and taken back to the eve of Pearl Harbour?

I don't beleive in time machines though.


A question I find more relevant in that it might one day be possible is would travelling to another planet in the solar system be a sin? Earth has an escape velocity, and its only in the last fifty or so years that humans have been able overcome this - was this meant to keep us from venturing further than our own planet.

CS Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy is very interesting in this regard. The antagonists Weston and Devine travel to Mars and Venus, and by doing so kindle the wrath of the unfallen tutelary spirits that rule those planets for God.

 

[Janet Thomas]

I don't believe its possible to time travel in the sense of leaping years ahead, or back in time.

But to run with the idea a little, what if it happened involuntarily like in the film The Final Countdown where a aircraft carrier gets caught in a time warp and taken back to the eve of Pearl Harbour?

I don't beleive in time machines though.


A question I find more relevant in that it might one day be possible is would travelling to another planet in the solar system be a sin? Earth has an escape velocity, and its only in the last fifty or so years that humans have been able overcome this - was this meant to keep us from venturing further than our own planet.

CS Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy is very interesting in this regard. The antagonists Weston and Devine travel to Mars and Venus, and by doing so kindle the wrath of the unfallen tutelary spirits that rule those planets for God.

I agree with this opinion.

 

[Diamond72]

lie is sinful

Liars are thrown into the lake of fire. But a parable is not a lie, because there is truth in it. I have had dreams about the future and I think it is a warning of things I need to avoid. I dreamed about my wife 10 years before I met her. I thought that was God's plan but it turned out just to be a dream showing me what was going to happen.

There is no past present or future with God because He is outside of time. He can go back in time to events where we experienced trauma and bring about healing. He does more then just to heal memories.

Also we need to remember that at the speed of light there is no time. Gerald Schroeder has a PhD from MIT on astrophysics. He can explain time very well. Einstein talks about how time is relative.

 

[Tionbai]

I dreamed about my wife 10 years before I met her. I thought that was God's plan but it turned out just to be a dream showing me what was going to happen.

That is very interesting. How do you determine that it was not God's plan but "just" a dream showing you what was going to happen? And how do you differentiate the two concepts?

 

[Diamond72]

That is very interesting. How do you determine that it was not God's plan but "just" a dream showing you what was going to happen? And how do you differentiate the two concepts?

Mostly because the marriage ended up in a divorce. I was not a Christian at the time. But God told me a Church I should go to and that I would find a wife there. But I was afraid to go. Even I drove by one day after the service and there were five girls standing around talking. He said I could have my choice of any of those five. It was a four square church. I did attend services there once but it all seemed sort of strange to me.


I ended up meeting my wife at a Halloween Party at the student center of the University I was attending. She caught my attention with the way she was dancing. Her mother and sister were very opposed to the marriage. I do not think it was personal, they just did not think it was right for her. But she wanted to have a baby. I told her I would not have a baby with her unless we were married. Then I ended up with custody and I was a single parent for 12 years.

 

[Tionbai]

Mostly because the marriage ended up in a divorce. I was not a Christian at the time. But God told me a Church I should go to and that I would find a wife there. But I was afraid to go. Even I drove by one day after the service and there were five girls standing around talking. He said I could have my choice of any of those five. It was a four square church. I did attend services there once but it all seemed sort of strange to me.


I ended up meeting my wife at a Halloween Party at the student center of the University I was attending. She caught my attention with the way she was dancing. Her mother and sister were very opposed to the marriage. I do not think it was personal, they just did not think it was right for her. But she wanted to have a baby. I told her I would not have a baby with her unless we were married. Then I ended up with custody and I was a single parent for 12 years.

Thank you for sharing! That is interesting, and then your previous message makes more sense. And it's also interesting that you received the dream of what would happen, and yet God still led you to another route He obviously knew you would not go down. It's fascinating how life unfolds like that.

 

[Diamond72]

And it's also interesting that you received the dream of what would happen,

It still amazes me today. In the dream we were riding bicycles on a lake and then cooked lunch on the beach. That actually happened. I bought us bicycles and that was the only time we rode them. I do not like bicycles, I would rather walk. I had to have a van to get those bicycles there that day on that lake. So the dream was about the bicycles, the lake and cooking lunch on the beach. That all came true. It was called Echo lake in the mountains of Utah. That is the state I lived in for three years when I was married to her. Because I loved to ski at the time and her family was there.

I had another dream once. I was traveling and there was a marching band, Then the car broke down and the mechanic wanted me to take out my wallet and give him all my money. I talked to the pastor and he said you better not travel. As it turned out, it was my son. He traveled to another city because he wanted to practice with a marching band there. They got into an accident and it ended up costing me the $2000 deductible I had on his insurance. Of course, if I had figured this one out, I could have told him not to go and saved myself a lot of money. He is going to pay me back though. When the furnace needed to be repaired and the repair man wanted to rip me off I got my son to give me $500 of the money needed to make the repairs. So I only have $1500 to go. He is a computer engineer now making good money so he can afford to pay the hyper-inflated prices that I can not afford to pay. I am just glad to have heat.

Dreams like that are rare. Actually, I seldom have any sort of dream at all. At least not that I remember.

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

I get the feeling God might respect someone who managed to hack his creation in such a way.