One recurring question we get is how did we connect God and Math?
Our answer is that there is no separation to connect. The difference is a matter of context and not absolutes.
In our study of God and Math, we did not compare the characteristics of two nouns, but the actions of two verbs. Math is an action, God is an action. Both use symbolic language.
Unfortunately, the most familiar context for God and Math is in the human development of religion and science. In fact most people don’t consider God or math as existing outside of religion and science, but these actions existed long before humans had the ability to recognize and record them.
Religion uses God in much the same way as science uses math; to predict the unknown, to verify information and as a pattern recognition tool.
While many people are taught to think of mathematics strictly in terms of science, tech, finance or other tangible things, those same abstract reasoning skills work for other natural processes as well.
Therefore, for us the first step in making the God Math connection was to see if any of those patterns intersect.
One persistent lesson of human history is that what we know today is not indicative of what we will learn tomorrow. Don’t assume what you know today is all there is to know.
If we can learn to recognize the patterns in previous behaviors, actions and events and then use that knowledge to align ourselves with the best possible outcomes. Why not build a bridge to get over it?
One of the more sinister similarities between God and math is in the way it is used to scare and discourage people away it.
Seriously, burying a secret between a layer of mathematics and God’s wrath is a good way to hide anything. People just aren’t aren’t going to do math, not even for God.
It makes sense though, I don’t want to learn the iOS code. I just want the apps to work.
So instead of teaching the mathematics behind the Bridge, we created the Rhema Meditation candle as a type of mental app. Allowing people to reap benefits of the Bridge without actually having to do any math.