In case it's been a little while, since you were in math
class, remember that geometry is the study of shapes and forms. Some simple and
some very complex, some flat and some multidimensional. And calculus on the
other side is the study of the rate of change made complicated by instantaneous
rates that lead to integral movements toward an infinite answer.
I wish someone would have told me a long, long time ago that
math is actually just a lot like God. Maybe then I would have liked it a little
bit better or understood it a little bit better. Maybe if you love math, you're
thinking, now I understand God.
We observe God like math in many forms, many shapes from
many angles while the world around us is constantly changing. And as
Christians, we are constantly making instantaneous decisions about how to
observe and perpetuate God's divine nature in the world. Our decisive actions
say something true about her integral, whole self. Geometry, the study of
shapes and calculus the study of change, are actually a lot like God. Algebra
then is the human side of the equation, because algebra deals deeply in
generalizations and assumptions about how it all adds up. That's why we usually
start with algebra. that's why we usually
start with prejudice and fear, safety, and security. We usually start with the
less complicated side of God, just like we start with the least complicated
side of math.
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