Mathematics is Godless

  What is this Godless mathematics that I speak of? Believers may question the possibility of this, the idea of mathematics being Godless. So they would argue, that their God created everything, the moon, the stars, the earth, and even mathematics. Thus, when they find me worshiping mathematics instead of God, they say: God created your math, bow to him!
    Ok then, assume God exists. Assume he created everything. Assume as you will then, that God is taken to be omniscient, omnipotent, etc. Well then let me posit to you the following question: can God run faster than himself, is God stronger than himself?
    The answer is simple and carries no big significance, of course He cannot do these things. They are logically impossible. We could not concieve of anything which could do these things, and I admit that even if God, were he to exist, would be exempt from these. The point is this: God in his omnipotency, can only do what is logically possible. He cannot bend or break the rules of logic, nor is he ever asked to do this.
    I agree with the preceding, and I think most believers would also agree with it. The previous is a generally accepted axiom, for it bars absurd questions like "can God do something that he can't do?" However, this principle bears a significant consequence.
    God cannot do what is logically impossible. He cannot make the Law of Non-contradiction false. The Law of Non-Contradiction is a law that states that epistemological statements are either true or false, but not both. That is, given a statement P (such as "it is raining"), then it is the case that either P is true, or P is false, but P cannot be both true and false. ~(P*~P). God cannot make this otherwise, because it is logically impossible. Therefore, it is the case that the Law of Non-contradiction is a necessary truth.
    The consequence of this is that all of mathematics is a necessary truth. By the same reasoning as the previous, it is logically impossible for all of the rules of mathematics to be other than what they are. Ironically, they are set in stone. Humans cannot change them, but only discover them.
    A debate in the world of mathematics centers on whether mathematics is discovered or invented. Assuming that God exists, then the Laws of Mathematics could not be invented by humans, because when God exists then humans do not really 'invent' anything. Nothing that humans conjure when God exists is new, since God already knew it.
    Therefore, the only alternative is that mathematics is discovered. I think believers will agree with this. However, I now ask: humans discover it, yes, but now God, did he invent math, or did he discover it?
    The answer is clear, God DISCOVERED Mathematics. If God invented Mathematics, then he could make the rules of mathematics other than what they are. However, God cannot make the rules of mathematics other than what they are, because it is logically impossible. Therefore, God did not invent Mathematics.
    What follows from this is that we have something which is indeed greater than God. Mathematics is greater than God, logic is greater than God. They are the rules which restrict even God himself, Nothing is greater than God; Mathematics is nothing in the sense that it is everything.

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