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The Mathematic Gospel


It is incredible to me how every facet of learning serve Christ and the gospel. Take mathematics, the symbols are all Christian in origin. A plus sign (+) is a cross, in particularly the Greek Orthodox Cross, and a minus sign (-) is a cross without the vertical beam, which in interesting because the vertical beam of the cross represents the relationship between Man and God, while vertical beam (-) represents the relationship between man and man. Thus to have minus sign is to only be connected with people, while a plus sign or the cross is to be connected to Christ who is God (Colossians 2:9) and mankind. Within two symbols you can share the gospel! A plus sign is the cross, and it means that if you believe in Jesus Christ you shall get all pluses: "love (+Ephesians 3:1-19), eternal life (+John 3:16, Romans 10:9), forgiveness for sin/bad choices (+Luke 7:48, 1 John 1:9), rest from weariness (+Matthew 11:28), peace (+Philippians 4:7), connected to God (+1 Corinthians 3:16), and "I came that you may have abundant life," (+++, John 10:10). In addition to these vertical pluses with God, we get horizontal pluses, we become able to love our fellow men, "A new commandment I leave with you, that you love one another as I have loved you," (+ John 13:34), "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends," (+John 15:13), and "love your neighbor as you love yourself." (+Mark 12:30-31).

The problem is that unbelievers live with a minus sign in their lives. They do not have the completed cross, the vertical beam or line, and so they are only capable of loving others (-) but the result isn't even a complete love, because only the love of Christ (+) can teach them to love another person to the point of "laying down one's life for one's friends," (+John 15:13). Another point to be made is that you are better off having only a (I) part of the cross or plus sign, than having minus (-) part of cross, for Jesus said, "Love Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, this is the greatest commandment, the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 22:37-40). You are better off starting with loving and relating to God than loving others, because you can build the full cross + if the vertical beam (I) is already in place, all you need to do is nail a (-) cross beam to it. But you cannot build a cross beam (-) without a vertical beam (I) it will just keep falling to the ground as you pick it up.

Eventually the plus sign becomes the multiplication sign (X). X actually is the ancient Greek letter fo XC which is Jesus abbreviated. X is also a shape of certain cross and is used in Roman Catholic Church. An X is simply a + tilted on side and so essentially the cross. The sign for division is a minus sing (-) titled, and its objective is simply to discern what is contained in a plus or minus figure; and so there is not building or growing, just examination. Its an improvement from the minus and losses, but division of a life only reveals what remains, and leaves us with data. What we want is to add, grow, and multiply our faith in this life. We minus our opportunities when we refuse to use both sides of the corss (+), if you let your relationship with God suffer and spend no time with Him, you end up with a minus (-), if you let relationships with people suffer and dry up that were healthy you end up with a pole (I) which stands because its connected to God, but doesn't reach out to more lost souls.

There you have it, the Mathmatic Gospel or the addition and subtraction approach to the Gospel. Jesus wants us to bear our crosses, which means to suffer, but it also might mean to stay connected vertically and horizontally (+) with God and man. Become a pole (I) and you are no earthly good, become a minus (-) and you are no heavenly good. The balance lies in Christ's own words, "I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth." (John 17:15-19). Jesus shows us that we are not of this world, but sent into it. We must be like a living and breathing plus sign or cross (+)! Connected to God "Truth" (I) and yet sent into this world (-) which equals a cross +.

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