A devout Catholic, Fermat held a judicial office within the [[Roman Catholic Church|Church]], and served as ''parlementaire'' in Toulouse. He was certainly acquainted with the writings of [[St. Thomas Aquinas]] and the evidence of his penetrating intellect. It is entirely possible that the perceived ''impossibility'' of a proof of the theorem Fermat proposed was ''in itself'' a clear demonstration of the realization of the possibility that what is famously called "Fermat's Last Theorem" was ''in itself'' a transcendental proof of the limitations of human intellect and of the limitations of mathematical and scientific methods in the presence of the wisdom and intelligence of the one transcendent [[God]] comprehending of all things subsumed under the Omniscient and Omnipotent Divine Rule. It is indirectly a "remarkable proof" that man is not infinitely capable ultimately of finally understanding all things, and is not God. Like the [[Christian mysteries]], Fermat's Last Theorem is above the intellect, but not opposed to it.<ref>See the following: | A devout Catholic, Fermat held a judicial office within the [[Roman Catholic Church|Church]], and served as ''parlementaire'' in Toulouse. He was certainly acquainted with the writings of [[St. Thomas Aquinas]] and the evidence of his penetrating intellect. It is entirely possible that the perceived ''impossibility'' of a proof of the theorem Fermat proposed was ''in itself'' a clear demonstration of the realization of the possibility that what is famously called "Fermat's Last Theorem" was ''in itself'' a transcendental proof of the limitations of human intellect and of the limitations of mathematical and scientific methods in the presence of the wisdom and intelligence of the one transcendent [[God]] comprehending of all things subsumed under the Omniscient and Omnipotent Divine Rule. It is indirectly a "remarkable proof" that man is not infinitely capable ultimately of finally understanding all things, and is not God. Like the [[Christian mysteries]], Fermat's Last Theorem is above the intellect, but not opposed to it.<ref>See the following: |