Can God travel backwards through time?
God is apparently all powerful and all knowing, so do you think he could travel back in time and make some subtle changes to how the Universe was made? For instance maybe he could have hid the tree of knowledge in the garden of Eden, or not created a snake, yet these might have had strong repercussions on how life is today.
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God is not constrained by any of our illusions, including time.
Perhaps, He already has!
Consider this:
Question: "What is a theophany? What is a Christophany?"
Answer: A theophany is a manifestation of God in the Bible that is tangible to the human senses. In its most restrictive sense, it is a visible appearance of God in the Old Testament period, often, but not always, in human form. Some of the theophanies are found in these passages:
1. Genesis 12:7-9 – The Lord appeared to Abraham on his arrival in the land God had promised to him and his descendants.
2. Genesis 18:1-33 – One day, Abraham had some visitors: two angels and God Himself. He invited them to come to his home, and he and Sarah entertained them. Many commentators believe this could also be a Christophany, a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ.
3. Genesis 32:22-30 – Jacob wrestled with what appeared to be a man, but was actually God (vv. 28-30). This may also have been a Christophany.
4. Exodus 3:2 - 4:17 – God appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush, telling him exactly what He wanted him to do.
5. Exodus 24:9-11 – God appeared to Moses with Aaron and his sons and the seventy elders.
6. Deuteronomy 31:14-15 – God appeared to Moses and Joshua in the transfer of leadership to Joshua.
7. Job 38–42 – God answered Job out of the tempest and spoke at great length in answer to Job’s questions.
Frequently, the term “glory of the Lord” reflects a theophany, as in Exodus 24:16-18; the “pillar of cloud” has a similar function in Exodus 33:9. A frequent introduction for theophanies may be seen in the words “the Lord came down,” as in Genesis 11:5; Exodus 34:5; Numbers 11:5; and 12:5.
Some Bible commentators believe that whenever someone received a visit from “the angel of the Lord,” this was in fact the pre-incarnate Christ. These appearances can be seen in Genesis 16:7-14; Genesis 22:11-18; Judges 5:23; 2 Kings 19:35; and other passages. Other commentators believe these were in fact angelophanies, or appearances of angels. While there are no indisputable Christophanies in the Old Testament, every theophany wherein God takes on human form foreshadows the incarnation, where God took the form of a man to live among us as Emmanuel, “God with us” (Matthew 1:23).
If you know how Time came in to existence ,then you will have no doubt in the least, how time originate and keep functioning till its end .
If you could work out by your knowledge of science, how energy and space that came before time transform themselves in to time . So this means that ,these three entities can not exist without one another.
Since GOD create them from nothingness and said to it ,Be and it is , then pure energy that can perform work being created and this pure energy being used by GOD to ignite the big bang . From that on, mass being created from sub- particles and turn to be atoms with energy remain inside, then being fill in space and then GOD turn or melted mass and space in to time.
So no need to answer such question of yours .because what I have said is clear as day light hope you are able to verify this by your goodself.
it is such a profound question. Maybe that's the one thing God can't do because it is impossible because he designed time so that it is impossible to backwards or forwards. Then again maybe he can.
Well there is no god and no one can travel back in time.
God is eternal, therefore he transcends time. If he were to alter what has happened he would affect free will, so no.