Infinity and our Existence

[Hollus]

I have some interesting ideas that I’ve been turning over in my head for a couple days now, and I was hoping that some Critical Thinkers here could help me out. I’ll try to explain as clearly as I can, but I can’t offer any guarantees.

Let’s say that you have the number 485926493 written down on a whiteboard. If you add or subtract 1 from that number, it’s not really that big of a difference. Sure, it might throw off you calculations a bit, but percentage wise, it’s only a tiny bit of the whole number.

Now let’s say that you have ∞ written down. If you add or subtract any rational number, that’s not going to make any difference at all. No matter how high that number is, it’s still 0% of infinity. The way I see it, whenever you compare natural numbers to infinity, they lose their values and become equal to zero, no matter their previous relation to other natural numbers.

To take this another step further, if you replace rational numbers with periods of time, you could say that finite amounts of time are equal to zero when you compare them to infinite amounts of time. For example, if you have an entity that has existed for an infinite amount of time, from their perspective, other finite entities haven’t really existed at all.

To summarize:
• Compared to infinity, rational numbers are equal to zero.
• Compared to infinity, finite amounts of time are equal to zero.

The main problem that I’m having is that Christianity and many other religions say that their god(s) have existed forever. You could say that our Creator, if we have one, is outside the influences of time, or that he/she created time in the first place. That kind of answer solves the question, although superficially, and it’s not really the kind of thinking that I find sufficient to properly answer these types of questions.

If we assume that our Creator’s existence is infinite, and our own existence is finite, does that mean that our existence really is zero, or just from our Creator’s point of view? Does perspective change our actual existence? Can infinite entities and finite entities even exist in the same universe? Does infinity even exist at all?

I hope that you’ve gained something from reading this, and I look forward to your replies.