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Originally Posted by T@T
I have no problem with infinity, it's a mathematical concept that has ZERO to do with god!
The only mystery of God is how his name has managed to last this long.
Sure pal.
Lets play question and answer shall we?
Question: Do you believe in the Holy Bible?
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You digress young dude. The mystery is that infinity is as you say a mathematical concept which has no bearing upon reality. Infinity is used however to describe the Universe because we have no other measuring stick of that scale. We do not know it's limits so we use the termi infinite to describe it. Standard atheist belief is that the Universe came fom nothing and by nothing therefore the Universe was infinite and existed before time
Not so because it has now agreed that the Universe had a beginning at the big bang and as such time existed from that appointment. According to the "came from nothing" theory matter miraculously appeared and some mysterious incredibly powerful source of energy happened to cause this explosion. All this from nothing. I would love to see that one repeated in a laboratory.
God is quite often defined as being an infinite being because that is one attribute of God. Others are Omnipotence (massive source of energy), Omniscient (Intellect beyond our tiny brains) and Omnipresent (ability to be anywhere at any time and in all places at the same time i.e. outside our known understanding of astyro physics.