Placing God In Your Personal Box...You Mean Like Trying To Square A Circle?

[watchman]

After the time when mathematics first became known to man, and it's usefulness became apparent in many fields of endeavor, the concept of "squaring the circle" became a frustrating futility to man.

It is only in the last 200 years or so that science has conceded that it is, indeed, impossible. Squaring the circle is essentially seeking to precisely equate the area of a circle with that of a square.

And.. thus the obvious became known. I guess logic did it when it was finally realized that since the area of a circle is precisely computed only by using pi, and pi is a number that is one of the transcendental numbers (infinite (never ending) in its quantity of digits), hence the area of a circle is thus truly unknown in it's absolute value.

There is a good discourse on Wiki-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle

The gist is that whatever answer we get when we compute the area of a circle, we can only be certain of two things:

1)the value we compute is LESS than it's true value.

2)we can get arbitrarily CLOSE to it's true value, but we can never find it.

Gee, is there someone we can ask?

[watchman]

John 3:15
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (KJV)

John 17:3
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (KJV)

Eternal: -- Without either beginning or end.

A Conversation regarding 'eternal':

Lenny: "Roger, can you point out the corner in this circle?"

Roger: "But there is no corner."

Lenny: "Why not? Why isn't there a corner."

Roger: "Because it's a circle. Circles don't have corners!"

Lenny: "You're right! As soon as you have any shape that has a corner, it is no longer a circle. A circle must by definition not have corners, right?"

Roger: "Yes."

Lenny: "OK then. Can you also see since there is no corner to the circle that every point on the circle is exactly like every other point?

Roger: "Um. Yes, I guess that's true."

Lenny: "Good. So if every point is equal with every other point, then the circle really has no starting point. Lines have starting and stopping points, but lines are also broken. They can be in many different shapes. Unlike a line, a circle must have all points equally connected to be a circle. That's what makes it a circle and not an arc. A circle is a shape without a beginning point or an end point, yet the shape still exists.

God has properties which define him in the same way a circle has properties which define it. A circle cannot have corners and a circle cannot have a starting or stopping point and be a true circle. In the same way, God is defined as someone who can exist outside of time; He is someone who has no starting or stopping point because you must be limited by time in order to have that. But it no more illogical to believe in a God who has no beginning or end than to believe in a circle that has no beginning or end.

Rev 10:6
6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: (KJV)

Gee, It would truly be hell being told to be told to go stand in a corner far removed from the circle. Forever.