Biblical Calculus

Matthew 20-22

I enjoyed math in college, but it was difficult for me. I never saw the inherent beauty in mathematics. Although some of the operations research side of math struck a chord with me, calculus and differential equations just never clicked. Now I work in a technical field (computer science), where technology life spans are measured in months -- not decades. In this environment, it is easy to pretend that you're smarter than Jesus, since he never had a computer and never talked about Calculus in the Bible. Easy to pretend, but just as wrong as the Pharisees and Sadducees were when they attempted to trap Jesus with their clever words. After Jesus has told them several parables that reflected poorly on the elite of the day, they asked him a series of three questions about taxes, the resurrection from the dead, and the most important commandment. Finally they realized that they couldn't trap him, and he just made them look bad each time they tried. We face a similar fate when we pretend that the creator of the heavens and earth and everything in it, and the laws that bind it (including math and science), doesn't know something because it happened after he died. How can we forget that he rose again?