Very interesting question. I listened a podcast recently by a guy named Jimmy Akin (Jimmy Akin's Mysterious world is the name of the podcast). He was grappling with a similar type of problem and one of the solutions he came up with was you could travel to the past but God (or the universe) would limit your possible movements and actions in order to not change the future. This is similar to the hit sci-fi novel, Doomsday Book, where the college students can travel back in time, but only to a place/time where their actions cannot change the future. A great book by the way.
The branching timelines seems to make sense to me as well. There is still so much we don't understand about time.
Very interesting question. I listened a podcast recently by a guy named Jimmy Akin (Jimmy Akin's Mysterious world is the name of the podcast). He was grappling with a similar type of problem and one of the solutions he came up with was you could travel to the past but God (or the universe) would limit your possible movements and actions in order to not change the future. This is similar to the hit sci-fi novel, Doomsday Book, where the college students can travel back in time, but only to a place/time where their actions cannot change the future. A great book by the way.
The branching timelines seems to make sense to me as well. There is still so much we don't understand about time.
I'm heard of Jimmy Akin, but not of that book, I'll have to add it to my queue!