Stuart Besser, played by Liev Schreiber, discovers a way to travel through time. He finds a “tear in the fabric of time” that one can travel through by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge at specific pre-determined intervals of time.
Leopold only ends up traveling through time because he spots Stuart, oddly out of place in 1876, snooping through his papers. Immediately suspicious, Leopold chases Stuart to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, and quite by accident, chases him right into the year 2001.
Sounds fantastical, doesn’t it? Of course, it is. Yet, time travel is a concept that has captured the imaginations of generation after generation. It is something that is impossible for us, and yet we keep right on dreaming about it. Books have been written and films made on the delightful, and sometimes frightful, prospect of time travel. What would it feel like, and how would we react? From H. G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” to Robert Zemeckis’ “Back to the Future” the concept has fully captured our imaginations.
Much to my surprise, I found not everyone agrees that time travel is merely a flight of the imagination. In fact, at www.timetravelfund.com you can purchase a ticket into the future. Yes, for just $10 (with compounded interest for the next 500 years) they promise to zap you into the future before you die, or possibly even raise you from the dead once the technology is developed, of course.
All this begs the question, why has the whole idea of time travel so thoroughly captured our imaginations?
Because God has set eternity in the hearts of men.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He has also set eternity in the hearts of men;
yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”
Ecclesiastes 3:11
We’ve all wondered what it would be like to be able to transcend time.
Jesus actually can, and does.
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