For what purpose is math? A question rarely asked. Was it our Creator’s intention to give us a more complete understanding of the magnificence and perfection of creation? And was it His intent for a real-life application of every form of mathematics?
Without Math, there would be no science, music, art, engineering, architecture, business, commerce, trade, internet banking with cryptology, medicine, computers, animation, fashion design, aeronautics, astronautics, agriculture, and even astrology. Math is part of all these things. Mathematics is the language of God’s creation.
Paul wrote Colossians 1:16, “For by him (Jesus Christ) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”
God has given us the ability and skills to create symbols representing real-life principles called addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, etc., each a part of the creation.
Has mathematics been written in the word of God? There are unique numerical patterns in nature that could only have been worked into the creation by a designer Creator.
Ivan Panin, a Russian emigrant to the United States, achieved fame for discovering numeric patterns in the Hebrew and Greek Bible text and for his published work based on his subsequent research called “Bible Numerics.”
Also, we need to note that many scientists were Christians.
Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician and considered “the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages. Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author recognized as a critical figure in the scientific revolution. His book laid the foundations of classical mechanics. Newton also contributed to optics and shares credit for developing the infinitesimal calculus.
Galileo has been called the “father of observational astronomy,” the “father of modern physics,” the “father of the scientific method,” and the “father of modern science.” Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Catholic theologian.
Johannes Keppler was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. Kepler was a crucial figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion.
Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms.
Robert Boyle was a philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor. Boyle is regarded today as the first modern chemist and, therefore, one of the founders of modern chemistry and a pioneer of the contemporary experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle’s law. Louis Pasteur was a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization. He created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax. His discoveries directly supported the germ theory of disease and its application in clinical medicine. He is best known for treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process called pasteurization. He is regarded as one of the three principal founders of bacteriology and is popularly known as the “father of microbiology.”
There was also Jean Henri Fabre, Michal Faraday, and John Ambrose Fleming, Isaac Newton had also spent many years of research on the subject of “Numerics in the Bible.” Many incredible patterns are present throughout nature, Fibonacci numbers being one of the more well-known. There is such an astonishing design in nature and the universe that it would be almost impossible to list them all. Still, we can see God’s hand in their ratios, distances, balances, arrangements, and proportions.
Hebrews 11:3, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”
God is a God of order, and His Word is perfect. As we see patterns all around, so does His Word, which contains patterns and numbers demonstrating His design and plans.
1 Corinthians 13:12, “For now we see through a glass darkly (dimly); but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
The universe began when God spoke the following words over 6000 Years ago, “Let there be–.”
Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. David wrote 3000 years ago, Psalms 104:2, God, “Who stretches out (expanded) the heavens like a curtain:”
As far as we know, in the universe, the smallest is our solar system, and space itself has properties such as dimensions, making it a mathematical structure.
Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2:9, “Eye hath not seen, or ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.”
Genesis 1:31, “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.”
Phil LaSpino www.seekfirstwisdom.com