What does it mean: There is no God:
The Secret Life of Zero.
When an Atheist states that there is “No God”, I as a Christian and lover of the creative processes of God would have to agree. You see as much as and Atheist wants to be an Atheist, the premise of their argument makes them exactly what they really are: A- theist. Which leads me to believe that there are none of them!
Let me explain. The number Zero is immensely interesting just in and of itself. Saying “the number Zero” is very much akin to saying that “there is NO God”, do to the fact that Zero of its own admission is seen as the absence of numbers, however can’t be described as anything but, and its implied non-existence can’t be explained if it, and numbers, don’t exist. So in order for there to be “No” numbers, numbers have to exist, without which there would be no Zero, of which numbers it is One, as God is one, or Zero.
Confused yet? Don’t worry so are Atheists.
Let’s break it down like a fraction, pun intended. The word “no” has its roots in the word “not” which is short for the word “noughth” which is the same as the word “Zeroth.”
Just ask any student of Harvard, how much they enjoyed their “noughth” semester, which comes right before the first semester, just as Zero comes before one, or does it? You can also ask Thermodynamics, but it is hard to engage in civil conversation, you can ask it due to the fact that after discovering the first law of Thermodynamics (the conservation of energy) they then discovered an even more basic law (temperature exists) and it became the “Zeroth law of Thermodynamics. Zero shares the most dubious of awards by being, both, the first number ever created, and the last number ever discovered, and it shares it with “no” one. Get it? You will by the end.
All free thinking societies, or captive thinking societies for that matter, from the inception of mathematics and all the way through the glory days of the Greeks shared a few things. One, they all separately came to the conclusion that math was formed on a base 10 level, and they had no symbol or definition of the concept of Zero. Both of these things are amazing. Not until the 6th century AD. Under the Gupta Dynasty in India
What’s the point? The rotary phone. No, really….I mean yes, really the rotary phone is the key to some of the most intense mysteries of the universe. If used properly. The rotary phone is a great example of the complexity of ordinal numbers vs. cardinal numbers. At some point in modern mathematics it was taken into consideration that Zero as the last number discovered, or the last non-number discovered (and the first), or the last number not discovered, or whatever, should be pushed to the end of the line and the numbers lined up thus: 1234567890 as they are on the top of my keyboard, I just noticed, which makes that one part so much easier to type. So if you are old enough to remember….. when dialing 1 on a rotary phone, how many click backs did you hear? And for 2? 3? And so on until 0. How many clicks for Zero? Ten. How is that possible if Zero has no value? Is the last number in base 10 mathematics 10 or 0?
Eventually the numbers were re-aligned thus: 0123456789 with 0 in its proper place, seemingly. As an ordinal number (in order) Zero precedes one, and is the first number in line. This means that 0 is the first number, 1 is the second number, 2 is the third number, and so on. This is very inconvenient and all together confusing, but none the less intriguing. As a cardinal number (the realm where numbers have their value) Zero comes after one and is greater in value. What????? How could this be???? Enter Myspace and Facebook to save the day, as they so often do. Let’s do an experiment. Concoct a sentence that tells me the numerical value of how many friends you have on your social network if all of your friends = 1. Answer: “I have one friend.” Very good. (on the math, the ability to make friends needs to improve) Now do the same if all of your friends = 2 or more.
Answer: “I have one hundred and twenty seven friends.” Why have you added an “s” to the end of “friend”? Literally! I just caught that myself. It’s because it needs to be plural, why, because it has become greater than 1 which is the definition of plural. Now concoct a sentence that tells me the numerical value of how many friends you have on your social network if all of your friends = 0. Answer: “I have zero friends” Plural!!! What??? How could this be? What is the value of Zero?
Zero as according to the theory of numbers has an infinite possibility of value. It is the only number that can do this, and therefore the least and the greatest of all numbers. Consider this: 1=1. 1 cannot equal 11 or 111 or so on; it already has a defined value. Zero on the other hand = 0, and 00 and 000 and 0000 and so on. Leaving its undefined value to represent infinity. Thus the circle being the perfect representation, having no defined beginning and no defined end. Infinite. The only other explanation is that it truly means nothing. If that were true then the statement “I have zero rotten tomatoes” would mean the same thing as “I have zero dragonfruit”. But it doesn’t because of the difference between rotten tomatoes and dragonfruit, and the statements also mean that there are tomatoes and dragonfruit, I just don’t have any, which is some, which gives birth to value, and therefore does not meet the definition of nothing. Just FYI this is real mathematical theory as developed by some leading mathematicians in the history of the world, not just my own idea. I am simply applying it in a way they did not, to situation that they did not.
How I defeated and Atheist, or A-theist rather:
I gave said atheist all the values of the numbers 1-9 and raced him to infinity using only the undefined value of Zero. We both started with a 5 to be fair. I added my 0 to my 5 and celebrated my victory as now my 50 was greater than his 5. He then put an abrupt end to my victory dance, for which all were thankful, by adding a 1 and boosting his numbers value above mine. 51 v 50. I then thrust myself into the lead again by creating 500, but before I could come up with a new dance, he added a 2. 512 v 500. O.K. so it wasn’t really all that exciting, lets just jump to the end. Eventually he had 512346789, and had exhausted all of the value captured by the numbers 1-9. I had 500000000 and seemed to have lost, but the undefined value of Zero had not been exhausted so with one more elliptical stroke of the pen, I won. He would have none of it (pun again intended) and insisted that he should be able to repeat numbers, which infringed on the mathematical validity and purity of the contest, but I conceded, and we eventually saw that there would be no end to this race towards the infinity of greatness. However my confused and non-existent friend forgot one important law of infinity. It is not only infinitely large, but also infinitely small and thus related to eternity. So we began again with 5. I put my Zero to the left, and he put his 1 to the left, and I was in the lead again. 05 v 15. He tried again to no avail. 005 v 215. No matter how hard he tried, his number kept getting bigger and mine smaller, do to the undefined value of Zero I have the option of decimals. So now we see only Zero is infinite.
Zero is most utilized as a place holder, and is the only number able to hold any place or no place at the same time, or ever. Think about the number of our year, 2008. What does that really say? Two thousands, no hundreds, no tens, eight ones. In this scenario Zero is boxed in by the 2 and the 8, and only has the possibility of holding a value 1-9. This is important in creation. Zero has both an undefined and infinite value of possibility, and a very definable value within the finite.
What that means is that inside of creation there is no possibility of anything being infinite. Infinity is just an ethereal concept that lives inside the minds of men/women and outside the realm of time. This is a problem for the Atheist/Evolutionist when confronted with the question, When? When did it all begin? To be true to the cause they must answer never, the past is infinite, or they can take the latest example of their leader, Stephen Dawkins, and claim that Aliens did it (yes, this is true). Wouldn’t the aliens just be gods in that case? No worries, as I said they are confused. The problem, that Dawkins knows, is that in the event of an infinite past there must be an infinite number of events in the past, which brings us back to why that is impossible. Here is the mathematical explanation:
If I have infinity starbucks mugs, and I keep three of them and give the rest to my wife, how many starbucks mugs did I give her? Infinity. How many do I have left? 3. How happy is my wife? Very. So infinity – infinity = 3. Now, if I have infinity starbucks mugs, and I keep all the odd numbers and give her all the evens, how many does she have? Infinity. How many do I have? Infinity. So infinity – infinity = infinity. Same thing again, but I just giver her all of them and keep none, How many for her? Infinity. Me? 0. So infinity – infinity = 0. All three of these cannot mathematically be true, so in the physical world infinity cannot exist.
The conclusion is that Zero as an ordinal number pre-exists one and all things physical, because we do not start counting physical things until we have at least one of them. And Zero as a cardinal number holds an infinite possibility of value. Zero means, Zeroth, means noughth, means NO.
So when an atheist, A – theist, says that there is NO God, he just admitted that God pre-exists all things physically created, and has an infinite possibility of power, knowledge, presence and all concepts in heaven and earth. Hallelujah!!
It might take them a while, but eventually the Atheist will come up with the only and best of all arguments against this explanation. It will go something like this: That sounds great, but if that is true, then I cannot say that there is NO anything. So you’re telling me that if I say there is no such thing as a pink elephant, I just gave that elephant pre-eminence and infinite power? And really it does exist?
Don’t you hate when such a long, intense, exhaustive, and highly personal explanation can be ripped to shreds by such a simple and non-intensive rebuttal. I refuse to let it happen! Here is the answer: Remember the infinite as relating to eternity. You cannot compare something created to something living outside of creation in mathematical theory. It’s worse than apples and oranges. Only two infinite and eternal objects, having no beginning and no end can stand up to combat each other in this arena. And to date the only physical concept that I am aware of, that the human race has conceived is the concept of God/heaven. To visualize: if I have a cup of water and I begin to pour it out, and it turns out that it is a magical cup and ten years later I am still pouring, someone might ask how much water is in that cup? I might be tempted to say infinity. That would be untrue. To that point the answer would be “Ten years worth”, and would grow older as time passed, but would always have a definable age. The reason is that all created things live on a point linear scale, and God lives on a linear scale with no points. This causes two problems: You can’t compare their characteristics, one, and all we can truly say is that up to this point we don’t have any pink elephants, but we don’t know what is down that line, two. New species are discovered all the time, Google it if you don’t believe me.
Last but not least (unlike Zero in that regard) here is a simple illustration the Lord showed me. Three prisoners are sitting in a dirt jail cell in the 6th century, a Christian, a Hindu, and an Atheist. The jailer walks in and says I have a question, person with the best answer is free…….Oops almost forgot, remember numbers existed long before we came up with symbols to represent them, all cultures have different symbols, but one is universal. The slash mark. The number of slashes = the number defined…………The question he asks first - the polytheistic Hindu, he says “ using a universal symbol show me how many gods you know to exist.” The Hindu makes five vertical slashes. He then asks the Christian. The Christian makes one vertical slash. He then asks the atheist. The atheist looks around confused, looks at the blank dirt wall, and is dumbfounded. No possible answer. I don’t know who got out, but I know who didn’t.
Conclusion:
God in his infinite wisdom, created a universe using the language of base 10 mathematics, in which he made it completely impossible for a human to turn from him and say “there is no God.” For if they do, they have defined him as the bible does. Pre-existing all things (he was crucified for us before the foundations…., I am the alpha and the Omega…….Before Abraham was, I am.) and infinite in power and stature.
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