Righteousness through Jesus – A mathematical representation

 

 

Can man earn the favor of God through good works ? If it could, why did God had to send his son on the earth to redeem man? This could be explained using the principles of mathematics.

Let us place the finite man at Point 0 and position the infinite God at Point ∞ on a line segment. Let us assign a score 1 for one unit of good work. So, if a person does 10 good works, he or she gets score 10 and moves from Point 0 to Point 10.

 

However, ∞ - 10 = ∞. So, the distance remains ∞ even after moving by 10 units to the right as per the definition of  ∞. 

 Another person decides to do 1000 units of good work and moves to point 1000.

 

However, ∞ - 1000 = ∞. So the distance remains ∞.

 

 

This shows that a person must do infinite amounts of good works to get close to God. But a finite man in his finite life can never achieve this. So mathematically a person can never reach God by good works.

However, God the Father has solved this problem for mankind.

 Let’s look at Romans 3: 20 - 26

“For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

When you accept Jesus, you become righteous through your faith in Jesus before God, because  the value of faith in Jesus carries a score of ∞.

Mathematically speaking, you move instantly to the right when you accept Jesus.

because

                                                                0 + ∞ = ∞ 

  

Would you lose this position because of sins? What happens when a righteous person commits 10 units of sin?

∞ - 10 = is still ∞. Though he moves away from God by 10 units, he remains in the infinite realm. So a righteous person cannot lose his or her righteous position because of few sins.

He or She can lose this position only by rejection of Jesus whereby he loses the score of ∞ and falls back to the a position which is indeterminable for

∞ - ∞ = Indeterminate

While God pardon all sins, sin of rejection of Jesus has no remedy. In other words, rejection of Jesus remains the worst of all sins rather the only unpardonable sin.  

Statutory Warning: Bible should be approached primarily through faith and not reasoning though tools of reasoning could be used to explain it.

Prakash T John

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