How mysterious that numbers exist in the mind of God. There was that famous question: Does God throw dice? I would ask: Does God not do maths?
I find supreme fascination in the mystery of God incarnate. The one who, as the Apostle John wrote, was God and was with God, the one called from very ancient times 'The Son of Man', took human form and became a man. Then around 25 to 30 AD, after dying (crucified) and being raised by God, the Son of Man returned to glory He (the capital H 'He') had with God since before the world began.
Now some see much mileage in debating and thinking about the thought divide between science and religion. I see more mystery and intellectual satisfaction in pondering the overlap between theology and both mathematics and philosophy (which are themselves intimately intertwined). Leibniz wrote much about the concept of the mind; the mind of God and, more familiar to us, the human mind. This philosopher and mathematician developed, hundreds of years ago, many of the ideas behind computing today, continuing the vision for a system of maths, science, ontology and logic pioneered by Aristotle thousands of years ago. Today computer scientists and mathematicians still largely adhere to that system. I wonder if this adds weight to the bases of the concepts which encapsulate the notion that mind is a reality shared by humans and God, that we all take certain concepts as a given, such as that an entity continues to be an entity and a person continues to be that person; that in the mind of God are all possible histories and worlds (not to be confused with the idea that multiple parallel universes actually exist) and that He knows which of these is best. But there are assumptions in these ideas we take for granted that God thinks of the universe in a way which includes the concepts we too have, about existence, people, mind, matter, etc.
How sure are we that God's mind, although orders of magnitude greater than ours, of course, shares concepts with those we have in our own minds, such as numbers? God's persistence in using the number seven, for example, in determining periods of time between special, ordained, predestined events. (This is even evident in the existence of the period we call a week, is it not?) We have enough in common between our minds and God's mind that we can count with the same numbers and communicate with the same words. That is astounding. Then to find that there is so much similarity that the 'Son of Man' - God from the beginning with God (what mystery is those words) - this Son of Man could become a human man, die, rise again, and then return to 'sit at God's right hand', effectively elevating our humanity to the heights of His divinity. The mind Christ Jesus had had in Heaven He brought to Earth. The mind He had on Earth He took to Heaven. He and the Father (the one we call God or Allah) having always been one with each other (in spirit and 'mind' as we can be ultimately one with Him and with each other in believing in Him) in divine, supreme love, can give us who believe that same mind and spirit and we can all be in harmony though we have been created human from the start.
