The concept of infinity has always been something that has been very humbling for me to consider. It is an awesome feeling to be able to just look out into the sky and just imagine the vastness of space and time, and to really try to imagine the impossible, at least in the physical reality sense. But even in mathematics, to try to understand the basics that a line segments consists an infinite amount of mathematical points is pretty mind boggling, especially the fact that it is a finite object containing an infinity. And then there’s Cantor and his approach to infinities to consider, which is that while infinity is already hard to consider, we know that there isn’t just one infinity, but rather many, MANY infinities – in fact, an infinite amount of different sizes of infinity. And then to try to consider an all encompassing infinity, usually denoted as Omega – but that can’t really exist, or can it?

Infinities gets even weirder when we consider what it is like to deal with an actual infinity, as opposed to the potential infinity. We understand the concept of potential infinities – that’s how we define limits in calculus. But we actually reach infinity, as opposed to just attempting to? In the realm of mathematics, there is no issue with that, but when we try to see how it can be applied to the world and reality, it seems mind-boggling and impossible to imagine. I mean after all, can anyone really understand infinity as an object by itself?

But if anything or anyone was to be “Infinity”, that description would belong to God Himself, existing beyond time and space. It is ridiculous to think that we will be able to completely grasp the Omega, but we can partially describe Him – that is what one of the purposes of the Bible. Even still, it is awesome to understand just how little we are compared to Him.