Can the future affect the past? I believe so; I argue that the future can indeed affect the past – specifically with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Resurrection of Christ is the supreme example. As I wrote here earlier,

“The resurrection of Jesus Christ was the most significant and far-reaching event (incredibly decreed from eternity past [1 Pet 1:19-20]) to detonate within the space-time universe. It ruptured the very fabric of reality, sending shockwaves to the furthest reaches of the cosmos. The effect transcended the speed of light, immediately affecting every part of a fallen creation, serving notice that everything had changed. But it was not only efficacious within our universe; it also sent powerful blast waves echoing throughout transcendent reality well beyond the universe into the realm of eternity———rippling both forward and backward in time. N.T. Wright was insightful in his magnum opus “The Resurrection of the Son of God” when he penned that it fractured the present evil age (Gal 1:4) in which we live with the unstoppable and life-changing invasion of a future era that is the Kingdom of God. As a result, we now live in a time when two ages overlap, a time of kingdoms in conflict. The resurrection of Jesus Christ brought a future reality (when everything will be made new) into the present, thereby eclipsing time.“

How can the effect of the Resurrection reach into the past? How can its effect be immediately felt in all parts of creation, transcending the speed of light? Of course God can sidestep the physics of reality (i.e., a miracle) as he did in Christ’s Resurrection. But is there any evidence in material reality that the future can affect the past? There does indeed seem to be evidence in the mysterious world of quantum mechanics and quantum physics. This explanatory video of the infamous Double-Slit experiment and Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser seems to indicate that the future can indeed somehow mysteriously affect the past. Quantum entanglement verifies that an effect can potentially cross the observable universe instantly, transcending the speed of light. Reality is a lot stranger than we think. And time itself is a great mystery—perhaps the ultimate mystery of creation.

The video explains the physics of the Double-Slit and Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser experiments that seem to indicate that time does not work the way we think it does. Reality is a lot more mysterious than we think. Do not make the mistake though of thinking that my theological analysis of the consequences and effects of Christ’s Resurrection (which eclipsed time) depends upon these experiments. Everything changed as a result of the Resurrection. The Resurrection is the Archimedean point of Christianity, around which everything else revolves and depends (1 Cor 15:14).