Timetravel and Sci-fi in the Bible

When you think of sci-fi in the Bible, Ezekiel is your go-to guy. He is, after all, the guy who saw a wheel in a wheel and eyes all around. People have forever thought what he saw was an UFO, by which I very much do mean the classic flying saucer.

But this muse is not on UFOs but actually on time-travel.

So consider this. One fine day Moses the great leader climbed up Mount Sinai and met God. His face shone with the light of God. God and he spoke there and he came down with some ground rules for Christians.

Many years later, the prophet Elijah fled to Mount Horeb. There he encountered God again, as a still small voice. A calm. A peace, if you will.

Many more years passed and Jesus brought three friends with him up a mountain called Tabor. There he was Transfigured. He shone. And Peter, James and John saw with him two figures of old – Moses and Elijah.

There is this theory that floats around the internet sometimes and unless you’re a sci-fi fan, your algorithm would not catch it. One of them is that Moses and Elijah did not appear there on Mount Tabor with Jesus as ghosts. Rather, they had travelled through space and time for a dual purpose – one, to be with Jesus at his hour of need, and, two, to converse with God. And they did both.

In the biblical language, we find a one-day-one-thousand-days equivalency for God. In sci-fi lingo, we’d say that God exists outside the space-time continuum. So for Moses and Elijah to meet Jesus even when they are separated by centuries is an easy possibility. Madame Vastra always said time-travel was always possible in dreams, and would hold tea parties in dreams, calling together for meetings people separated by time and space. The Doctor often sends out the TARDIS to collect people separated by time and space to stand with him. For a sci-fi fan, it’s really not that hard to imagine.

I’m not saying this is real. It is a theory that someone proposed. And I really found it fun, amusing and enchanting.

Of course, while Mount Sinai and Mount Horeb are one and the same place, Mount Tabor isn’t. But if you want the facts to fit your theory, you could always say Mount Tabor was the Main Console and Mount Horeb was where you need to stand so the teleporter or transmitter or whatever thingamajic would ‘beam you up’.

Fun, no?