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My grandson and I are together every Sunday, because he goes to church with me. On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19, 2006, we were traveling to a restaurant where we had been invited to go with a couple from the church. On the way to the restaurant, my grandson was fooling around with some cards that he has that, I understand, play like a video game. The cards challenge one another, and the card which has the most points printed on the front wins the challenge. There is one card, he says, that says I-N-F-I-N-I-T-Y. As he spelled this word, I told him it was infinity. That means that it lasts forever. I told him that only God is infinite. Then he began to talk with me about the card challenge and said, "That means he can't die." Then I said, "I suppose so." He asked, "What if I put down this card that says infinity, and someone else put down a card that said infinity? Who would win? My answer was that no one would win; they would cancel out each other, and there would be no game. Then I said, "Let's talk theology." He was very quiet in the back seat, so I thought he was probably thinking, "What is he talking about?" Then I said, "Let's talk about God for a minute. God is infinite, right?" He said, "Yes." "What if God were infinite and Satan were infinite, too?" I quarried. He said something like "The game would be over." I said, "Absolutely! So, then, there can be only one infinite being, and it is God. The Devil is not infinite. If he were infinite, then, when we get to heaven and God is trying to keep everything going in peace and comfort for his people, Satan would be challenging him throughout all eternity." The Bible says in 1Cor. 15:28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. God must be all in all. He is all in all. I understand that the word infinite in the Hebrew language gives the idea of pointing to the end of time and space. A house divided against itself cannot stand, the Lord said. Therefore, the reason that we can have assurance that heaven is just as the Bible describes it is that God is infinite alone. There are no other gods besides him. There is no equal. He is God of all, and faith in his Son brings salvation from sin and assurance of heaven with no challenge from Satan. |
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