Our speaker was also fantastic - out of the great insights he had in his sermons, one of the things I liked the most was his message on one of the Psalms; that God’s thoughts about you number more than all the sand on all the beaches in all the world.
(from a friend’s Facebook note)
I understand the feeling behind this. I really do. I appreciate the exquisite beauty of the message.
But when I read it, I can’t think about anything but the brain God must have for it to be true for every person—even given a useful definition of a ‘thought’—and the extreme unlikeliness that such infinitely powerful hardware exists in our tiny little universe. Even assuming there are only 6,000,000,000 people on the planet (there are more than that) and an equal number of grains of sand on all the beaches (which I feel must be wildly inaccurate on the low side), that’s 36,000,000,000,000,000,000 (36 sextillion) thoughts.
This is why I will never be a believer.
