Current Events > Question for Christians: If you went back in time, would you save Jesus' life?

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Im not religious but wanted to comment anyway. No, because if he actually existed in the context you are portraying him then he was sent by God and meant to die for us.

I dont believe this of course but if it turned out to be true Id be shocked, let it happen, and become a believer.

Now if there was a historical Jesus figure that was just a regular guy but none of the religious stuff was tied to him and I could easily prevent a wrongful death? Yes.

I think that depends on if you believe Jesus was really who he said he was.

If you dont, then sure youd try to save an innocent man. (I dont think youd have much success though unless you brought modern technology with you).

If you do believe, then wouldnt stopping Jesuss sacrifice be condemning everyone to hell? And besides, if Jesus really was Gods son, then I dont think hed allow you to intervene.

Hejiru posted...

I think that depends on if you believe Jesus was really who he said he was.

If you dont, then sure youd try to save an innocent man. (I dont think youd have much success though unless you brought modern technology with you).

You brought a get of out jail free card.

The Romans accept it because of passover.

I dunno man, just roll with the hypothetical. You have some means of successfully preventing the cruxifixion of Jesus.

If I went back in time I'd seriously consider killing Paul, because I think he's one of the people who if they hadn't existed the world would be very very different and I am suuuuper curious what that would look like.

Hmmm, whats the exchange rate on thirty pieces of silver?

Any Christian who saved Jesus would be destroying the religion. You'd come back to 2023 and find out nobody alive today even knows who Jesus is, and Christianity doesn't exist. It would be some tiny cult of a handful of people who thought some guy was a god but then everyone dropped it when the leader died of old age

He didn't deserve to die, but it's a sacrifice that needed to happen.

So, as a Christian... no, I wouldn't.

Zikten posted...

Any Christian who saved Jesus would be destroying the religion. You'd come back to 2023 and find out nobody alive today even knows who Jesus is, and Christianity doesn't exist. It would be some tiny cult of a handful of people who thought some guy was a god but then everyone dropped it when the leader died of old age

Don't you think this is putting too little faith in God/Jesus?

UnfairRepresent posted...

Don't you think this is putting too little faith in God/Jesus?

Not if Jesus or Yeshua, was not actually a god. Maybe he was just a man.

Time travel presents an interesting conundrum for the religious. Because if it's possible to alter causality to prevent someone's death, you're effectively removing a soul from Heaven (or Hell). Does God just let this happen? Or does time travel present us mortals with the ability to contradict and/or override God's will?

Zikten posted...

Not if Jesus or Yeshua, was not actually a god. Maybe he was just a man.

Very true but if you accept Jesus was just a man like you or I, then you're not really believing in Christianity.

The entire core belief of Christianity is that Jesus Christ was the divine son of God. And rejecting that makes him no different than say Mr Rodgers or Tony Hawk.

There's many factions of Christianity and different sects but I've never heard of one that rejects Jesus. Since at that point you may as well be a Muslim or Jew. Or at least a Deist/humanist

Dark_Arbron posted...

Time travel presents an interesting conundrum for the religious. Because if it's possible to alter causality to prevent someone's death, you're effectively removing a soul from Heaven (or Hell). Does God just let this happen? Or does time travel present us mortals with the ability to contradict and/or override God's will?

God works in mysterious ways. Maybe your time travel is part of God's plan?

Would certainly be a viable answer to the Problem of Evil if this shit gets retroactively fixed later

I heard about a famous sci fi novel called Behold The Man. I've never read it but I read the summary of the plot. A man builds or finds a time machine and goes back to the Roman province of Palestine, around the year 30 AD. Rest will be massive spoilers

He tries to find Jesus but all he finds is a mentally disabled man named Yeshua I think. He ends up trying to fulfill the legend by doing all the things Jesus did in the Bible. And he ends up dying on the cross at the end in despair. His last thought is that it was all a lie. Later a man of science obtains the main character's body and is disappointed to see the corpse decays like any normal human dead body with no supernatural properties....