The Gap Between God and All Created Things

Despite today’s knowledge we have of an infinite gap between God and man, Religion creates weird theologies, and scientists create weird cosmic and atomic theories, and biologies hang onto Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Below, I discuss this gap, which has been discussed by me in Part IIb of my book, ‘The First Scientific Proof of God.
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Mathematicians and scientists from Galileo through the 1960s accepted an infinite God even though they could not determine God’s infinity. However, in the 1970s, mathematicians and scientists refused to accept scriptures as a proof of God. This refusal, the new mathematicians and scientists either dropped their faith in the Western world God or accepted the God of the Far East. With this refusal, the new mathematicians and scientists would accept only the mathematical infinite, which is also known as the 'bad infinity.'. For example, the set of integers (1, 2, 3, ...etc.) Is a mathematical infinite because it has no highest integer and is thus incomplete and imperfect.

Why did personalities from Galileo through the 1960s accept an infinite God? The answer is in the 15th century work of Nicholas of Cusa. Nicholas tells us that every inquiry into the unknown proceeds by means of a comparative relation. Accordingly, the concept ‘finite’ is necessary to develop knowledge. But, the necessity of the concept ‘finite’ has the following consequences --- that the infinite. qua infinite, is unknown, that the absolute truth is incomprehensible, and the absolute maximum (means not greater) in incomprehensible. The reason Galileo, et al had faith is because the completed infinite is God’s infinity and cannot be known.

Although, God is not knowable, God can be recognized because an unbridgeable gap exists in between ‘what is really finite’(things in the universe) and ‘what is really infinite’(God). Seeing God is possible with the eye of the mind. For instance, when a finite physical body is divided, the parts approach the absolute minimum on an asymptotic path, the division is never completed because the gap cannot be crossed. Only the eye of humans can recognize this gap.

In Figure IV.1, p. 222 of my book, I show how an electrical engineer distinguishes real things in the universe from objects of our minds, and from God. In this figure, the S-plane has real and imaginary numbers. God is not on the S-plane but limits it at the center point and at the circumference line of the S-plane. The center point is a limiting zero-point. It is thus a spiritual thing. The circumference is a geometrical line that limits the S-plane. The engineer can add mathematical infinities and zero-points anywhere in the S-plane in order to change the reality of the thing being created.

Without a spiritual world and the gap between God and all finite things, the engineer could not create. The recent failures of the field of physics is proof that physicists do not recognize this gap. So, it is time for the new mathematicians and scientists to recognize this gap.