Today’s technology allows us access to an immense storehouse of human knowledge. Now, try to imagine the immeasurable amount of information relating to all the elements of the universe and our existence. It is obvious that we haven’t even scratched the surface when it comes to understanding – well – everything.
All things considered, it would take an eternity to understand it all. Perhaps that is intentional. Perhaps an all-knowing God created a human being with limited abilities to observe and comprehend while occupying a human form.
Those of us who have contemplated an existence that lasts through eternity may have cringed at the idea of an infinite number of days of existence. Would we become bored? Would we eventually accept a fate of ceasing to exist, ceasing to think or experience? Would we actually reach a point where we no longer wanted to exist?
If we recognize God as the source of infinite wisdom, we might begin to understand that the unlimited pool of information that is at our disposal, especially after physical death, is part of God’s plan for us. It gives us the incentive to continue to learn in our lifetime, and it gives us hope for a joyful existence in the afterlife.
And the evidence is all around us.
Our science invents new standards to explain the vast distances between stars. Even by those standards, we don’t truly grasp those distances because the only way to describe them is by mathematics. By the time we add enough zeros to the description, we have long surpassed any possibility of visualizing such distances.
Our efforts are distorted by the fact that our life experiences are based on standards that we can see or feel.
Perhaps it would take an eternity to fully grasp those new standards. Perhaps that was God’s plan all along.