Have you ever used math or algebra to express a spiritual concept?

Question

For example, consider this concept from the Divine Principle:

Freedom + Responsibility = Results

In this equation responsibility is shared between God and His children. This is best expressed as a fraction or ratio. God always gives 100%, the actual results we get in any situation depend on our response(ability). For example:

. . . . . . . . . . . Our responsibility = 10
Freedom + --------------------------- ------ = Our Results (fruit)
. . . . . . . . . . God's responsibility = 100

If we make a 10% investment in fulfilling our responsibility, then we get a 10% result. If we invest 50% we get a 50% result. If we invest 100% we get 100% result.

Any other spiritual math nerds out there?

Answer 1

*Is Catholic*

All of the time. If you read the Church Father or the Medieval Scholastics, they are always using high level math.

One of the examples that I utilize a lot is the Quadrature of the Circle relates to how we come to know things about God.

Answer 2

Pythagoras,Plato,Euclid,Proclus, Plotinus ,Aristotle, Empodocles, Descartes, Liebniz, Spinoza just to name a few

Answer 3

I used recursion once in trying to explain a spiritual concept, but that was many moons ago.