'To Bless All Mankind' April 9, 2018 Issue

A practical understanding of the infinity of God

Eric Nelson

Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor, November 3, 2017.

Unless you’re a mathematician, you probably don’t spend much time thinking about the notion of infinity. Given even a bit more thought, though, it’s something we all might benefit from every day of our lives.

I found this to be true one afternoon when thinking about infinity during a bike ride.

I was within a few miles of completing what had been a pretty arduous fifty- or sixty-mile ride, and as I approached a short but steep incline, my legs completely gave out. It wasn’t as if I wouldn’t be able to finish my ride, only that I’d likely be pedaling at a fraction of the speed I had been for the previous few hours.

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