Short Story: "The Skull" by Philip K. Dick

This was a really cool story. I really liked how he was sent 150 years back in time to kill a man who was the famous Founder of a religion that he didn't really like, but when he is finally about to go out and actually kill this person he looks at the skull of the man he is supposed to kill, and realizes that it is actually him. He realizes that he is the "Founder" that everyone talks about who was a complete stranger in town and gave a speech that inspired people to start this religion. So he goes outside to face the police coming for him and all the people watching, and he says ""I have an odd paradox for you, Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!" And these words spark the formation of the "The First Church". He knows he going to die but he is comforted by the fact that over a hundred years later he will be born 'again'. When really it is just when he was originally being born. That is the confusing part because you have to consider both timelines. You have think about the 'timeline of time' as I would call it, and the timeline of the life of the time traveler. Like, in this story, Conger(the main character who ended up being the founder) had already started the First Church in the 'timeline of time' but he obviously knows nothing about it when he born in his own timeline 100 years later. And then he has to go back and create an event that had already happened. So he really didn't 'come back to life' he just was born in the present(for him) and went back in time and died in the past. But maybe that is what could be considered coming back to life. Also, if you believe in heaven, and he died in the past would he be in the heaven of the past or from his time? Or would it just not have time and everyone who will ever die is there at the same time? And would his consciousness really come back to life as a baby when he is born? This is so confusing!