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Originally Posted by DaveMatrix
Good Point.....just imagine you were a man, let alone God, and had the chance to go back 5000 years. You could then try to explain the history of the earth, the nature of the universe, tha fact that out bodies are made up of billions of individual cells, matter is made up of atoms, or quarks, or maybe even strings.......all of that would be a tough sell, to say the least. Even if you did explain it to the best of your ability, and then an old testament type wrote a book about it................wonder how that would turn out???
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And you bring up another interesting philosophy. What if we DID go back in time, even just 2000 years to Jesus's era? WE would be considered gods. We can create light. We can cook food without fire or heat. We can travel from Nazareth to Rome in a few hours. We can heal the sick. Hell we can even turn water into wine - it's called Koolaid.
It's a common tenet that any sufficiently advanced civilization or being would appear magic to a primitive one.
If Jesus somehow had access to technology (and let's not forget that there are some VERY VERY interesting archaeological finds that suggest we might not be the first technologically advanced society on this planet - look up the Baghdad Battery for one small example) then he could easilly pass himself off as a divine being, and the primitives of the day would be convinced of his divinity. After all, thousands of years later we still don't know how the hell the Egyptians managed to build the pyramids - - Clearly they had some sort of comparitively advanced construction technology - you're not gonna lift those giant blocks without it. and if they had advanced construction technolgy, they probably had advanced other technology.