Sunday, April 11, 2010

An attempt to understand infinity from finite mind

Alright, don't let the title scare you. It was the most accurate title I could think of that still pertained to what I am going to write about. Or it could be the first title I came up with. Either way, keep reading:

I think one area that is never really explained is how God views our existence on Earth. Of course he values us and sees us as very important creations of his, but I mean quite literally, how he sees us. God is the creator of everything we live in. That means all our tools we use to discover God's nature is from a finite point of view. If you can recall, God is infinite and essentially indiscoverable through our finite methods. The only ground we gain in the discovery of God's nature is through starting with the one thing God gave us called Truth (better known as the Bible ;)). If we start with what we know as being absolutely true coming from the infinite God himself, we can build our knowledge from there. I am certain that if God did not directly tell us of his nature (e.g. if the universe was essentially Deist), we would never even come close to discovering his attributes.

Another interesting area that is important Christians understand is how God see's time. Being finite beings, we are locked into three forms of time: Past, Present and Future. And to be quite literal, we only ever experience the Present time. This is because we are bound by the finite laws of time. However, God is infinite and the creator of time and thus he is outside of time. Now I am going on speculation here, but I envision God seeing the Past, Present and Future happening at the same time. Sure that doesn't make sense, because we only understand time through a finite point of view. It is the only way a finite mind can explain and understand how an infinite mind might work. God sees all three forms of time happening all at once. This is just the nature of trying to understand infinite with finite means. However, I didn't think of this for no reason. I thought of this thought process to explain the mixing of Armenism and Calvinism--which is enough of a topic to cover on it's own another time.

Anyways, that was what was on my mind for a while now. I am glad I am able to get these thoughts out more often. Like I said, I have been slowly growing in interest of Apologetics and this only fuels me more. Another side note: I believe that Apologetics might actually be what God wants me to do with my life. In some way, some how, I believe I am going to be using Apologetics to glorify God in whatever profession I wind up being in.