(a) In the entire created universe, no two things can possibly be the
same. It is impossible for any two things to be identical at any given
point in time, as human scholarship and reasoning have seen and veri-
fied. Yet the substantial and physical things in the universe viewed one by
one add up to an infinite number. Neither can the world have two iden-
tical situations over time. As you can see from the wobbling of the earth
caused by the misalignment of the axis to the poles, the earth never
comes back to the same spot.
This is also provable from human faces. In the whole world, not one
face exists that is the same as another or similar in every way. Nor will
there ever be two identical faces to eternity. Infinite variety like this could
occur only as the result of God the Creator’s infinity.
[ 2 ] (b) No one’s character is completely like another’s. As the saying
goes, there are as many opinions as there are people. Therefore no mind,
that is, no will and intellect, is the same as another or similar in every
way. As a result, no one’s speech is identical to anyone else’s, either in
tone or in the thought behind it. Nor does anyone’s action copy another’s
to aT,either in manner or in the emotion and inclination behind it. This
infinite variety as well is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of
God the Creator.
[ 3 ] (c) In all animal sperm and in all plant seeds there is an intrinsic
kind of immensity and eternity—immensity because it can be replicated
to infinity, and eternity because its replication has continued without
interruption from the creation of the world until now and will continue
perpetually. As an example from the animal kingdom, take fish in the
ocean. If there were as many fish as there are fish sperm, within twenty to
fifty years fish would fill the ocean to the point where it contained noth-
ing else, causing the water to flood the whole planet and destroy it. To
prevent this, God has provided that fish become food for other fish.
The same would happen with plant seeds. If all the seeds that one
plant produces each year were planted, within twenty or thirty years they
would cover the surface of not just one planet but many. In the case of
some bushes, each seed will produce hundreds or even thousands of other
seeds [in a year]. Calculate it for yourself, multiplying the production of
one such seed twenty or thirty times over, and you will see.
The divine immensity and eternity cannot help but be reflected in
some way. The two commonly experienced phenomena just discussed
make these divine qualities visible.
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