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	<title>Comments on: Everything&#8217;s Bigger Than You Can Imagine (or, Why I Love Astronomy)</title>
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		<title>By: Astronomy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Astronomy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isa 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isa 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Dobbins</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Dobbins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thanks for linking this, amazing and mind boggling.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thanks for linking this, amazing and mind boggling.</p>
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		<title>By: Dawit Mengistu</title>
		<link>http://www.rootsrain.com/?p=136&#038;cpage=1#comment-18825</link>
		<dc:creator>Dawit Mengistu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brilliant. How great is our GOD!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant. How great is our GOD!</p>
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		<title>By: Ronald</title>
		<link>http://www.rootsrain.com/?p=136&#038;cpage=1#comment-18813</link>
		<dc:creator>Ronald</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel</title>
		<link>http://www.rootsrain.com/?p=136&#038;cpage=1#comment-18681</link>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So while some infinities might be larger than others, God is the biggest Infinite of all?.. And there can&#039;t be anything bigger than infinity because infinity means no limit. And saying infinity is bigger than infinity makes no sense.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So while some infinities might be larger than others, God is the biggest Infinite of all?.. And there can&#8217;t be anything bigger than infinity because infinity means no limit. And saying infinity is bigger than infinity makes no sense.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Again, I think the idea that God could make something bigger than infinity is a category error. We&#039;re going beyond the bounds of what we can talk about. It&#039;d be like saying &quot;God can make a square circle.&quot; If words keep their meanings, then the thing is impossible or irrelevant.

The Bible talks about God&#039;s being everywhere present. So He&#039;s infinite. &quot;Beyond infinite&quot; is a category error. God could be a tiny speck, but He would also, at the same time, be infinitely large. He can be present everywhere while also being present in one place in a different way than He is in another place. So He could localize some manifestation of Himself (like when He appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai) while also being present on the Moon or Eta Carinae. But He was not visibly displaying Himself (that we know of) on the Moon while He was visibly displaying Himself on a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula.

Is that making sense? We can talk about God being infinitely small while simultaneously being infinitely large. He is all infinities.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Again, I think the idea that God could make something bigger than infinity is a category error. We&#8217;re going beyond the bounds of what we can talk about. It&#8217;d be like saying &#8220;God can make a square circle.&#8221; If words keep their meanings, then the thing is impossible or irrelevant.</p>
<p>The Bible talks about God&#8217;s being everywhere present. So He&#8217;s infinite. &#8220;Beyond infinite&#8221; is a category error. God could be a tiny speck, but He would also, at the same time, be infinitely large. He can be present everywhere while also being present in one place in a different way than He is in another place. So He could localize some manifestation of Himself (like when He appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai) while also being present on the Moon or Eta Carinae. But He was not visibly displaying Himself (that we know of) on the Moon while He was visibly displaying Himself on a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula.</p>
<p>Is that making sense? We can talk about God being infinitely small while simultaneously being infinitely large. He is all infinities.</p>
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		<title>By: Rachel</title>
		<link>http://www.rootsrain.com/?p=136&#038;cpage=1#comment-18677</link>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well just because we can&#039;t say if there is something bigger than infinity, doesn&#039;t mean God can&#039;t. That&#039;s what makes Him God. I read on the internet that God could be bigger than infinity but He could also be a tiny speck. Is that true?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well just because we can&#8217;t say if there is something bigger than infinity, doesn&#8217;t mean God can&#8217;t. That&#8217;s what makes Him God. I read on the internet that God could be bigger than infinity but He could also be a tiny speck. Is that true?</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>God would always be more extensive and deeper than His creation, yes. I&#039;m not sure I&#039;d call His creation infinite, though. I don&#039;t think the universe is infinite, for instance. Numbers can be infinite, but they&#039;re, in some sense, not real. They&#039;re abstracts. It&#039;s an unhelpful argument to say that since the set of positive integers is infinite, and God&#039;s love is infinite, therefore the set of positive integers and God&#039;s love are the same size. That doesn&#039;t tell me much about either one except they&#039;ve both gone beyond measurement.

I&#039;ve got to come back to the concept that infinity means what has gone beyond measurement. Infinity is a finite person&#039;s construct to delineate things which are actually, finally, unknowable in a complete sense to a finite person. It is possible for a finite person to know everything in the entire universe, since the universe is finite. But it is not possible for a finite person to know the highest number (you could always add one) so we call number infinite. It goes beyond finite abilities to know in any complete sense. God is also infinite. He is beyond finite abilities to know in any complete sense. So when we call God infinite and number infinite, we&#039;re not saying they have anything like equal existence. We&#039;re saying that they are equally impossible for finite beings to fully know. Which is a weak concept for describing the limitless, but it&#039;s the best finite beings can do. In a very real sense, God is more limitless than number, but words begin to fall apart when we try to describe how. We&#039;ve made the mistake of trying to measure what has gone beyond measurement. We end up moving into the realm of poetry to describe impressions of limitlessness or of our intense smallness in the face of limitlessness. Our finite ideas just aren&#039;t strong enough to move those concepts around.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God would always be more extensive and deeper than His creation, yes. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d call His creation infinite, though. I don&#8217;t think the universe is infinite, for instance. Numbers can be infinite, but they&#8217;re, in some sense, not real. They&#8217;re abstracts. It&#8217;s an unhelpful argument to say that since the set of positive integers is infinite, and God&#8217;s love is infinite, therefore the set of positive integers and God&#8217;s love are the same size. That doesn&#8217;t tell me much about either one except they&#8217;ve both gone beyond measurement.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got to come back to the concept that infinity means what has gone beyond measurement. Infinity is a finite person&#8217;s construct to delineate things which are actually, finally, unknowable in a complete sense to a finite person. It is possible for a finite person to know everything in the entire universe, since the universe is finite. But it is not possible for a finite person to know the highest number (you could always add one) so we call number infinite. It goes beyond finite abilities to know in any complete sense. God is also infinite. He is beyond finite abilities to know in any complete sense. So when we call God infinite and number infinite, we&#8217;re not saying they have anything like equal existence. We&#8217;re saying that they are equally impossible for finite beings to fully know. Which is a weak concept for describing the limitless, but it&#8217;s the best finite beings can do. In a very real sense, God is more limitless than number, but words begin to fall apart when we try to describe how. We&#8217;ve made the mistake of trying to measure what has gone beyond measurement. We end up moving into the realm of poetry to describe impressions of limitlessness or of our intense smallness in the face of limitlessness. Our finite ideas just aren&#8217;t strong enough to move those concepts around.</p>
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