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→Infinite Nature of God: + New Testament refs
The word "infinite" is mentioned three times in the text of the [[King James Version]] (Job 22:5; Ps 147:5; Nah 3:9), and once in an explanatory footnote (Nah 2:9), all in the [[Old Testament]].<ref>http://classic.net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=Infinite</ref>
The word "infinite" is mentioned three times in the text of the [[King James Version]] (Job 22:5; Ps 147:5; Nah 3:9), and once in an explanatory footnote (Nah 2:9), all in the [[Old Testament]].<ref>http://classic.net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=Infinite</ref>
Modern understanding of the full nature of infinity is based on the work of devout [[Christian]] [[Georg Cantor]], who studied infinity as a way to understand [[God]] better. Several teachings of [[Jesus]] explain that infinity is the real nature of [[God]]:
Modern understanding of the full nature of infinity is based on the work of devout [[Christian]] [[Georg Cantor]], who studied infinity as a way to understand [[God]] better. Several teachings of [[Jesus]] (and one recorded as from John the Baptist, and one even recorded as from the angel Gabriel) explain that infinity is the real nature of [[God]]:
* Matthew 3:9 ("and do not presume to tell yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father", because, I tell you, God can raise children of Abraham from these stones." [John the Baptist])
** Luke 3:8 ("and do not think of telling yourselves, "We have Abraham for our father" because, I tell you, God can raise children for Abraham from these stones.")
* Matthew 19:26 ("Jesus gazed at them. 'For men' he told them 'this is impossible; for God everything is possible'")
** Mark 10:27 ("Jesus gazed at them. 'For men', he said 'it is impossible, but not for God: because everything is possible for God.'")
** Luke 1:37 ("For nothing will be impossible with God." [Gabriel])
* Matthew 20:1-16 (Parable of the Vineyard Workers)
* Matthew 20:1-16 (Parable of the Vineyard Workers)
* Luke 15:11-32 (Parable of the Prodigal Son)
* Luke 15:11-32 (Parable of the Prodigal Son)
* John 8:58 ("Jesus replied: 'I tell you most solemnly, before Abraham ever was, I Am.'") The Biblical name given to God by Himself and told to Moses ("I Am") extends into the New Testament and portrays God's first essence to be His existence. Thus the naming indicates that if He exists at all in this unique way, He also exists in a way that is essential to existence itself (that is, essential also to the essences of other things that exist, but that don't exist as a result of their first essence) as drawn from unlimited possible existences.
* Revelation 19:6 ("And I seemed to hear the voices of a huge crowd, like the sound of the ocean or the great roar of thunder, answering, 'Alleluia! The reign of the Lord our God Almighty has begun;...'") The Biblical title given to God of "Almighty" extends into the New Testament.
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