Yes, this traveler is the Jehovah(YHVH) of the OT, and the Jesus(YHshua) of the NT.
No, definitely time travel is far from being his only "trick." As to omnipotence, that is just one of many attributes. Omniscience, righteousness, kindness, the list goes on for quite a while. But to spare the antagonists too many terms that they feel to be irrelevant, I'll skip it.
Part of this time travel thing with this individual is one of meeting with humans to give them encouragement, wisdom, fellowship, insight, and other such life affirming attributes. They speak to humans through supernatural means, and discuss the future events of mankind, the end of life as we know it here, now. And give a beautiful protrait of the Earth to come in the distant future. Of course, there is discussion on what happens when the people were not to follow the laws laid out for them.
While speaking for a predominantly religious/spiritual/national purpose with the nation of Israel, and followers of Jesus, it dawned on me the other night that one person had interjected themselves into our time line to accomplish a single goal-- better the human condition.
In sci fi, and other time travel ideologies, we talk about polluting the time line, or acting as watchers. Doing some deed, or list of deeds to change how the human condition is progressing, or regressing towards its future. With those of us who believe in the creator, and what He stands for, etc... we're called Lights, or salt of the earth. We're told that salt is to act as a preserving agent, and to make life taste better. As lights, we act as a beacon of hope. All of this 'pollutes the time line.' It acts as an agent for good-- according to the bible's standards, but the 'pollution' still occurs. If this series of interjections were to cease, or not occur; if we as salt, and lights, cease to be effectual, life would progress towards some final destination that I'm sure many would not like. It's said that Jesus did more for humanity than any other single human being. More than Julius Ceasar, Abraham Lincoln, etc... That he alone changed the course of humanity. That without him, we would be far worse than even Rome was with its citizens. I could easily make a list of all the 'evils' of the 'ancient' world, but I'm sure we've all had our history classes, so I'll skip that too.
The dead were raised, the lepers healed, children were freed from madness, and possession-- however you wish to call that. Innumerable peoples lives were affected. All because this person stepped out of eternity, into time, and lived as man. All of it 'polluted' the timeline.
curiosity seeker, ponderer of time travel, I'd want to look into those events that demonstrated time travel-- in whatever shape it took. The Jewish bible is rife with these examples. From the time of Abraham, to the time of the Judges, YHVH steps into time, and the human picture numerous times. The writings of the prophets are also rife with futuristic tales of times, events and people to come. Even "Bible Code" researchers discuss the idea of someone being outside of time to understand how this works.
The likes of Gallileo, Newton, Copernicus, and many others believed the bible, and sought to understand the natural world for the purpose of better understanding the creator. Throughout my prof's lectures, comments on Newton have been made that he believed that if we could manipulate matter, we could make gold from lead. Perhaps by adding electrons, or protons, and neutrons to the atom, we could change its make up.
While he wasn't necessarily trying to be an alchemist, he was branded such for a time.
Ok, as I get farther into this, it's becoming increasingly obvious to me that as much as I try to avoid having this sound 'religious,' I'm not succeeding. I really do want this to remain just a discussion on time travel.
While omnipotence gives such a being indescribable power, they've still accomplished something that we just dream of--- traveling through time. Stepping in and out of it, much like we'd step through the door way into our home, or the store.
Ok, here's another analogy that I'm sure many have heard when it somes to time travel.
If you were in a sky scraper, or really high tower. You could see for a very long distance, in all directions-- north, south, east, and west. Let's say that a window washing device fell from a building 20 blocks from your location. As you watched it, you could begin to notice that people on the ground were oblivious to its imminent landing. Also, you noticed, two blocks away, a bus full of school children driving to that location. As a watcher, you just let it happen. But, as an active participant in time, you act. You call the police, 911, etc... Since you're a distance away from the event, you're probably scoffed, or mocked, but you keep insisting that the event is occurring. For the sakes of those people below, and the school bus full of children, you are impelled to make your case.
While you are in time, you are far enough above the milling about on the streets below to see a lot of action, and life happening. As an "outsider" you have a vision that only those above the din can view. This basically is what we call time travel. What I'd think the creator can see as well. He, they are outside of time. Above it all. Able to see the end, as well as the beginning. There is an ancient saying that goes something like this, "He sees the end from before the beginning."
I'd think that an adept time traveler would have that same sense of vision. Able to see all kinds of events from another perspective. An outside perspective. Or, from a biblical sounding point of view--- an eternal perspective. Eg, "We look not on the things that are seen, but on the things that are not seen, for the things which are seen, are only temporary, but the things that are not seen, they are eternal."
Ok, while I'll be more than willing to answer any and all questions about this perspective of time travel, I'm done now. I know this has gotten far too religious sounding for many, and I honestly wasn't trying to do that. I'll not apologize though, as I think I made some very interesting points.
Time travel is indeed possible. Perhaps not by man, but by one, or maybe even many already living outside of time.
If I lived one hundred+ years ago, and someone told me that by the year 2000, there would be devices that could fly me in the sky at speeds 5x faster than the whistle could move, move me along the ground at speeds 100 times that of a horse, that I could talk-- live-- with someone 10,000 miles away, step foot on the moon, fly in outerspace, go to the bottom of the ocean, and see life of unspeakable kinds, hold a computing mechanism in the palm of my hand, etc... etc... etc... I'd say they were crazy, and it was impossible. But, look at us now.
I can hold the entire world's libraries in the palm of my hand, with a 250GB+ hdd. We view at the nanoscale, and then some.
The only impossible things are those we refuse to attempt.
My dad was an electronic engineer in the late 50's throughout the 70's. The first computer he worked on was the size of your average warehouse. The last one he worked on was the size of your washing machine. He now has one that he holds in his lap-- as do most of us. He told me that the OS's were so small, that they all were run off of punch cards. Ram was no greater than 64kb. Hdd's were less than 4mb's, if not smaller. The computer that got the Apollo crew to the moon was so huge, and held so little computing power that we'd laugh if one were to be placed in front of us today for our use in solving problems.
As many of you older physicists will remember, Fortran was the only program availble at one point. Now there are many languages.
What was once impossible, is now possible, and in some cases, quite commonplace. Now, we are faced with yet another impossibility. Some day, someone will figure it out. If they give themselves enough leeway.
Perhaps there is a cosmic cop sitting out there, preventing us from doing so. Perhaps they are out there just wating for us to join them. Perhaps we'll get there, and find ourselves alone. Perhaps.... We will never know... until!
Just like the Vulcans of time not yet passed, ignoring the likes of us because we don't have warp technology that takes above the light barrier. We'll never know until we try.
See you when...
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