What happens if you go to hell in one timeline and heaven in another?

[loinburger]

In Timeline1, you commit a damnation-worthy sin, die, and go to hell.

After you die and go to hell, somebody travels back in time (creating Timeline2) and alters events so that you're never put in the situation in which you're tempted to commit the damnation-worthy sin (or they find some other way to prevent you from committing the sin). You don't commit any other damnation-worthy sins, so you then die and go to heaven.

As a concrete example, in Timeline1 you masturbate, die, and go to hell. In Timeline2 your anonymous assistant spikes your drink, thus giving you with whiskey dick, thus making it impossible for you to masturbate. (If in your theology the mere thought of masturbating is enough to land you in hell, then your anonymous assistant spikes your drink so thoroughly that you're incapable of thinking of anything besides guns and baseball for the rest of the evening.) You then die and go to heaven.

What happens to your soul? Is it in heaven since that's what happens to it in the latest timeline (meaning that Timeline1's sins don't exist in Timeline2)? Is it in hell since that's what happens to it in the first timeline (meaning that Timeline1's sins carry over to Timeline2, where it is impossible to atone for them since you aren't even aware of them)? Is it simultaneously in Timeline1's hell and in Timeline2's heaven? Is it simultaneously in hell and heaven (without different timelines getting their own versions of hell and heaven)?

[Colon™]

There must be a Star Trek episode that dealt with this matter.

[Aeson]

It's too late Loin, just accept your fate. Not even Marty McFly can save you now ... :burning:

[ZEE]

You are still in hell, in all cKases. You could have 45 different timelines, But if timeline 1 is in hell, that sentient soul (you) is still in hell. Each timeline cKreates a different soul.

too Bad so sad.

[Elok]

Zeno ran into similar problems with "Achilles, the tortoise, and the Portal gun."

[Sava]

Good thread. So, for the sake of argument, are there separate heavens/hells for each universe/timeline?

Does reformed/good Biff Tannen go to heaven while the evil Biff Tannen from the other timeline goes to hell?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

In a multiverse it is all true, problem solved.

[DaShi]

So there is more than one God.

[ZEE]

you are assuming God cKannot manage moar than one universe?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

So there is more than one God.

A single one, and he punishes you based on your actions whether in one universe or another... same rules, correct outcomes

You on the other hand are both in heaven and hell simultaneously, as each universe has its own heaven and hell, for the purpose of this story.

From time to time, in a dream you can see yourself in heaven or in hell, and you are looking at the truth both times, just in a different universe, that's all.

[DaShi]

Then what happens Post-Crisis Christianity?