Christ and time-travel? Many believe the Christ did not exist before His holy divine conception. The scriptures do not unambiguously state the nature of His ‘pre-existence’, if they even state at all that He pre-existed. Yet Christ’s spirit, we are told, was at work, interacting with prophets hundreds, even thousands of years before the time of His coming in the flesh. Is it by a spiritual kind of time-travel? Or is it something even more mysterious in the power of spirit and in His relationship to God, His Father? Did Christ’s own spirit transcend or traverse time or did it simply exist before Christ took flesh? He is able to reach out to people by spirit across space, as the Book of Acts tells us regarding His interactions with Paul. Does this include time too? Unitarians and Trinitarians will come to this from different angles but the mystery remains. He Himself famously said “Before Abraham was born, I am.”
1 Peter chapter 1
“… Concerning this salvation, the prophets who foretold the grace to come to you searched and investigated carefully, trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.…”
