re: If you could go back in time what event would you want to see?

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Imagine all of those, thousands, that witnessed Jesus’ ministry and miracles and didn’t believe.

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Well as you probably well know a lot of it was explained away as magic and tricks and something insidious by the Pharisees..the Jewish Church/political leaders and the Roman government at the time


It could be used in a way to illustrate having a personal relationship with Christ as the disciples and early followers did which makes the difference

whether just seeing and witnessing some of the stuff like many people who are just a part of the church that lacked the relationship with Christ and it was just interesting

it's one class mentioning one day of conversation about how actually witnessing the resurrection might affect the faith
the consensus was that gave the disciples kind of an extra piece or knowledge in order to endure many of the things they did in the aftermath

September 30, 1927
Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
Washington Senators vs. New York Yankees

I'd like to see the entire game, with Babe Ruth hitting his 60th homerun of the season off Tom Zachary in the 8th inning.

January 5, 1940
Cafe Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, New York

I'd like to see the Glenn Miller Orchestra play live.

Two more…
1. How were the pyramids built (ie, aliens)??
2 destruction of dinosaurs

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Go along with Lewis & Clark and see the untamed West before Western Expansion.

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that's a good one. i'd love to bring along my fly rod for that time travel expedition as well.

also thinking when columbus lands in the new world and his interaction with the natives.

it would also be cool to visit the athenian agora when socrates was giving lessons.

further back during the neolithic revolution and the development of early human civilization, cities, farming, domestication of animals, division of labor, organized religion, etc. would be wild to see humans evolving culturally that way.

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You'd have been one of those people that argued semantics in the temple all day while Jesus was performing miracles amongst the poor.

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I’d say I’m arguing the opposite.

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Some would argue (me included) that belief isn’t even a requirement of faith.

“Idk if you’re up there but I choose to trust your will and teachings, beyond my understanding”

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I mean, I would call that a belief. Or at least an act of volition rather than intellect. But if we follow Alexander Bain's definition of belief as an idea upon which I am prepared to act, the distinction between volition and intellect gets dissolved. What you're describing sounds a little like a combination of Schleiermacher (faith as absolute fidelity) and William James (the will to believe). Not bad company to be in!

1955 World Series. Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Yankees. Day games and many future HOF:
Mantle, Yogi, Whitey Ford, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Koufax, Roy Campanella. So much talent on one field. It was Brooklyn’s only World Series title.

Pickets Charge

Battle of New Orleans, Alamo, Gettysburg, Little Big Horn

I'd rather go forward in time to see if it's worth hanging around for.