Doctor Who - Part IV

You know......I've said it before – and I'll say it again – I enjoy Doctor Who, and I enjoy re-watching episodes seeing the Doctor travel across space and time helping people.

Before I continue – I must give the usual quote from River Song: “Spoilers!” - as if you haven't watched the episode and are planning to – some of these things are spoilers.

Now – to somewhat understand this – I'd recommend watching the clip below – or if you don't feel like watching the clip – then just read the quote underneath the clip:

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.” - The Doctor

So – people may not understand this – but essentially to give a quick example – imagine being able to travel in time – and you go say 7 days in the future – when you get there, you meet up a friend who said something about something you did 2 days ago – you'd literally have no idea what they're talking about because you didn't experience that event yet – you skipped ahead in time and need to go back where you should be and relive out those 7 days.

So – the point in this BLOG is not to explain the concept of Time Travel – nor is it to say if it's real or not. I'm hear to do a comparison of two different events and show how they can relate to one another.

In Season/Series 4 of Doctor Who, there's an episode titled: The Fires of Pompeii.

Now – Pompeii is a historic event that we know to be true. So – the Doctor and his companion Donna, travel back in history to Ancient Rome – to find themselves in Pompeii on Volcano day. The Doctor goes about doing his normal stuff, essentially stating to Donna they had to leave. She asked if they could stop the event from happening and save all those people. The Doctor then explains something to Donna: Pompeii – Volcano Day is a fixed point in time, he cannot stop it from happening, and has to let it happen.

On their way back to the TARDIS(his spaceship/Time Machine) they find out it's been misplaced. A merchant sold it to someone – and now they have to go about finding it.

Allons-y then!

They go to find the TARDIS – and come into a Roman's family's home. While in the home the Doctor and Donna talk for a few moments when the Doctor finds something seems odd/wrong. So after finding out a few things – The Doctor discovers that there are aliens underneath Mount Vesuvius. These aliens – are planning to take over the entire world and essentially kill all humans.

Now – the big decision comes about. The Doctor can leave let the aliens do as they please and destroy the World – or the Doctor can kill the alien threat by causing Mount Vesuvius to erupt.

The Doctor can kill the lives of the ~20,000 people or he can walk away and know that this would mean the end of Human life as we know it.

A fixed point in time.  Need I say what he did?

Talk about a judgement that had to be made.

Now, what I find interesting about this – here comes the comparison – is there are a lot of people who doubt the Holiness, Sovereignty, or the Love of the God of the Bible. Yes you can clearly see it in the New Testament – although you can see Judgement in Revelation also – but that's another blog topic in itself. The thing is what most people focus on in the Old Testament is how God killed so many people.

You have the Hebrews who disobeyed God by building the Golden calf, you have the Egyptians who wouldn't let the Hebrews go, you have the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and so much more...

We're so quick to judge this God – without understanding the why. If we understood the why, we'd perhaps be ok with it. You think?

Doctor Who, killed 20,000 people; killed the Daleks; killed the Time Lords(or did he); and the list goes on and on and on. Yet people still love him.

Why? Because you see a judgement need to be made poured out on those people for the sake of everyone else.

Yes – I may be adding stuff that's not in the Bible itself, but what if the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah never happened? Would we still be here today? Was there a purpose for this destruction?

The Bible says the people in Sodom and Gomorrah were pure evil. Would this eventually have led to the end of the Human race? Perhaps? These details we don't have. We cannot change the past – all I can tell you is that, Sodom and Gomorrah was a fixed point in time.

Isaiah 40:28 And now, have you not known? Have you not heard? The eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of His understanding.

You know – I don't know why God killed all those people with those events: the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.

All I can say is this: You can't love a God who would do that – and don't know why he did those things, yet you can love a Doctor guilty of the same acts because you know why he did it?  Has it ever crossed your mind that perhaps those events happened in history for your best interest?