Consider, the wisdom of God, with which all creation was made, included mathematics, which had always been in the wisdom of God. It was necessarily present in God's wisdom, as God is triune in being. If God was not triune but solitary in being, there would be nothing of mathematics from that, as there would be nothing but solitary unity, everything would be just a value of one, and no other numbers. Love God has requires more than one, and creation would not come with no number but one. God's creation is possible as it comes from love that God has, and has without limit.
Yes, that's well put.
The entrance into the world of numbers in the Bible is shown to us right at the beginning of the Word of G-d. We see in the introduction how G-d comes into view. He exists. He is not described. He is not questioned. The same applies to the number one. The Bible does not begin with the letter one in the first letter, but with another number, two
Just as G-d is presupposed in the text, so too is His number presupposed. From this alone, one can recognise the connection between G-d and one. One could say: The biblical number one has the meaning ‘G-d’. It is not possible to formulate such a simple meaning for every number.
The third word,
elohim (meaning G-d), has the numerical value one as its first letter. This reveals the meaning of one as the number of G-d. It is also striking that the third letter of the Bible is also one
It is therefore noteworthy that both in the words and in the letters there is a connection between one and three.
We see that the Bible begins with two. Both the first and second words begin with the letter two
When we write ‘letter,’ we often also mean ‘number.’ The first two words, ‘in the beginning‘ and ’created‘, describe creation (the act of creating) by G-d. Therefore, two is the number of creation. From our human perspective, creation is everything that we can perceive with our senses and think with our minds.
Therefore, two has a true diversity of meanings. However, we see the fundamental meaning in the relationship: Two as creation stands opposite its creator G-d (one). With creation, something new, something second, comes into being. It is the step from unity to diversity. Two is the beginning of the many. The process of creation is expressed by the numerical relationship
1+1 = 2.
The ‘adding together’ of two numbers (addition) represents the joining together of two units. The result of this calculation (the sum) is the new unit consisting of the joined units. G-d created something new out of Himself, creation. In this view, the two connects. But it also has a dividing or separating side. G-d is eternal, without beginning or end. Creation, however, has a beginning. In this respect, G-d and creation differ. Therefore, the two is also separate from the one.
Through the act of creation, G-d created the ‘opposite,’ the ‘you,’ the ‘other,’ the ‘new.’ When we look at the numbers, we see a further meaning of the number two as the number of the ‘Son,’ which is connected to one, the ‘Father.’ G-d's entire creation corresponds to two.
In Gen 1:1, we read that this creation consists of two parts, on the one hand ‘the heavens’ and on the other hand ‘the earth’.
However, the first three words of the Bible also conceal a meaning of three, which is revealed in the NT. In these three words, there is a twofold relationship between one and three:
The first letter of the third word is one and the third letter of the Bible is one. This already shows that G-d is related to three. It is in the NT that we learn that G-d is a Trinity
The word elohim (G-d) is a plural word in Hebrew (like the word parents in English). However, the preceding verb ‘created’ is in the singular. This fact already reflects in the OT that G-d is a trinity (the triune G-d). A meaning of three is therefore ‘trinity’
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