Infinite

If you begin reading the verse on this mobius, you can continue reading it until you run out of desire, energy or time because it is an endless loop which can be followed to infinity.

We are very finite people, dealing with an infinite deity. I once read an atheist’s comment that he could never believe in a deity that would provide infinite punishment in hell for the finite sin of unbelief, which ends at death.

I do believe that God has revealed Himself, in His way, in His time, for His own reasons. What ever those are, we don’t know them. We’ve been told that this world will end – scientists confirm that – we just don’t know when.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. (Matthew 24:35-36 KJV)

Science has told us it will end in fire – the same result given in the Bible – when our sun explodes. Science has a probable timeframe, millions of years away. The Bible doesn’t appear to offer that long a term. Funny, neither did the Mayan calendar, though now it appears they may have just run out of room.

Back to the infinite deity. How can we comprehend that which will not cease? Just as reading the mobius, we simply pick a spot and cease reading. It appears repetitious, and the words are, but the thought process and the learning are not. The possibilities are finite only because they are limited by time.

If there is an infinite deity (and I believe God is) what we do about and for that deity is infinite. Rejection of God requires infinite punishment simply because He is infinite. Cease belief in Him, cease belief in His eternal salvation, cease being in His eternity. It remains our choice. Belief, or disbelief, is not determined by God, though it is foreknown by Him in His omnipotence. A quirk of infinity.

Thoughts about Him often are as entwined as a mobius. One leads to another along path that always returns to Him. Even atheists who openly battle the beliefs of others keep Him in their thoughts as they write to change another’s belief. I do care what my loved ones believe, because I see an infinite future for them, and for me.

I cannot provide that future nor their faith. The choice is for each individual to make. I am saddened by those who have told me, “No, I don’t believe there is a God.” They give reasons for their disbelief, so they’ve given consideration and made a conscious decision to reject the existence of God.

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18 KJV)

God sent Lucifer and the fallen angels to hell. Humans go on their own.