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"...I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek Me in vain..."
(Part of) Isaiah 45:19(evidently, you do have questions)
Is this only the beginning of what is happening here?
Why does hitchhikers guild say it’s 42? Is it for absurdities sake?
Do we live in a mathematical universe, thus suggesting that all meaning can be expressed through number?
Do people perhaps yawn out of a deep down desire to be a Wookie?
Do we hiccup because diaphragms just like messing with people?
Could you get bitten by a radioactive groundhog, then gain the power to be able to predict the weather with 50% accuracy?
Could they perhaps be called geckai, geckees, geckice?
Are we maybe just inefficient and weirdly vain creatures?
Was it the dogs?
He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.
That’s awesome that your doing math for your free time! It makes me want to shed tears of joy!
Yep, it’s a recursive function. Plug in every point in the 2d plane for Z, and if it blows up through recursion, then it’s not part of the set, and if it is self contained, then it is part of the set. Somehow out of that subtle simple piece of math, we get such infinite and beautiful complexity. It is just a droplet of all creation that God has given us. I always feel like when I prove some mathematical statement, or discover some new concept, I suddenly see a little more of God’s painting.
He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.
(Yeah, I get it. Yep, I intend to be a mathematician and/or quantum engineer. I want to understand fundamental truth, that of both a temporal nature, and a divine nature, and math is how I express that. Yeah, lol, I only jest, sorry. Math is just my thing, and I do do it for its own sake, it’s just nice to actually use that ability for something else, like tutoring. Though I don’t really like applied math as much, because I feel like it tampers with the math, but one still desires to be useful from time to time.)
He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.
(Yes! I have a long way to go on figuring out how to make math work in my books, but I’m working on it.)
Was math there before God, or did God create math? Is it possible for anything for anything to exist without math? But at the same time, could anything exist without God?
Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.
Or maybe, does math exist necessarily because God exists?
(Just thought of that lol)
Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.
(You bring up a really interesting conversation. I think that this may be one of those things where theologies tend to to diverge throughout Christianity. Personally, I actually do believe that there is a form of natural law that even God abides by. I’m a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and that’s actually one of our beliefs, though we don’t talk about it often. Whether or not this law is in any way mathematical, I don’t know, though I believe it to be. Although, we observe through things like general relativity, and quantum mechanics we see that by merely observing something can change the overall outcome, and even be the reason that something exists in the first place. This can point to the idea that by observing reality, God created reality, because who was there to observe reality before us, if we are the only observers, then reality could not have been observed by us before we were around, and therefore we couldn’t exist. One could take this with the idea that God is governed by some higher law, or one could say He created it. If you accept this though, a whole bunch more questions appear. Whatever which way you believe, I believe that as long as we are striving to become closer to Him, He will take us in His arms, no matter where we are on the board. We simply need to be facing towards Him.)
Do you have any comments? More questions?
He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.
(That actually makes a lot of sense. It makes me think of the questions like, “What can’t God do?” The answers are always something like, he can’t make a square circle, or a married bachelor. He can’t sin. I’ve always enjoyed thinking about the questions like that, even though I know the answers for a fact. But yes, there are those questions that, though they are interesting and difficult to discern into debate, do not affect our eternity in Heaven. Sort of like the young or old earth question. While I would lean towards young earth, no one can really know which one it is. Right now, we’re reading a book on logic for our homeschool, and I think we’re just over half-way through. It’s been really interesting, because, though I’ve seen flaws in arguments before, I’ve never had a name to put to them. Logic ties in with math as well as apologetics, so it’s a really fun and interesting topic. Also, kind of random, my best friend and I are always laughing because we get into topics like this so often, and so randomly. It makes it even better when to give our brains a rest we go to play chess… and then realize that’s not really normal. Then again, we’re not called to be normal lol, we’re called to glorify God. Pretty sure God would approve using your brain to play a game like chess! 😅🤣 Anyway, random question.)
Do you enjoy playing chess?
Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.
(Yeah! That is such a good point. You actually reminded me C.S. Lewis, and it was through his quest for logic and scientific rigor, that was the exact reason he pulled a 180 and became a Christian apologist. He thought he could disprove God, but ended up realizing that a loving God is the only thing that makes sense. I totally get that, I love getting into the deep topics, I struggle to find many people who I can actually have such conversations with sometimes though. When I need a mental break, I often end up screwing with things on Desmos or the ambigram series (something of my own discovery), or whatever other mathematical concept is peeking my interest at the time.)
(To answer your questions… YES!)
Is that a challenge?
(If yes, accepted)
He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.
(First, C. S. Lewis is just awesome in general. Great writer, and maybe an even better apologist. And as for chess, I’d love to play you once I’m done with lunch.)
Do you use chess.com or something else?
Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.
Does it depend on what is unknown? Is the unknown still knowable, or is it the ineffable and incomprehensible?
(Um… I didn’t think that far. XD)
(Maybe the unknown is knowable, but only to those who dare to venture into the unknown and make it the known.)
Should you be careful asking that question because of children that love to ask questions may be watching us?
(*looks around* *notices children about to break into tears at the realization that Santa is not real* *hides in @princesachronicle ’s donut shop to escape children ready to attack me for denying Santa’s existence*)
And who took my donuts????
(Oops. That was me. You must excuse my craving for donuts. 🤣 They were delicious though. 😋)
Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende
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Is life a dream and dreams reality?
Why are there only 60 minutes in an hour? Why not 59 or 61 or 73?
What is language?
Why are words called words and not called cows or some other word?
(Yeah! He really is someone who because of his experiences, has become one of the most inspiring and devote Christians!)
(Sorry, I vanished to go plant some trees. I can do chess.com)
You still available?
He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.
Should we should draw out a map of set diagrams? Where there is the known contained in the unknown, but knowable, contained in the ineffable, contained in the incomprehensible, perhaps contained in the realm of natural law, contained in beyond law?
He is perfect in Justice, yet He is perfect in Mercy, even when we fail Him. For this, He is good.
Do we have the time, ability, and knowledge to accomplish such a feat?
Write what should not be forgotten. — Isabel Allende
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