For example, we can easily see the real-life principle of addition all around us. If we take an object and add another object to it, we will always be left with two objects. If we have one cookie and one piece of pie, we will have ended up eating two desserts, whether or not we want to admit it. There is a real-life principle of addition that we can’t escape. When we write “1 + 1 = 2”, we are recording a principle God created when He created the universe. God is the one who determined how objects would interact. He chose to make one plus one equal two. The symbols we learn in math class are just ways man has agreed on to write the consistent relationships God set in place all around us.

God didn’t just create math—He also holds it together. Think for a moment about the amazing way math works. It does not matter what we attempt to add, objects always add in the same way. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t bother to study math, would we? What would be the point of memorizing addition facts if sometimes one plus one equaled three?

Yet math only works because this universe operates in a regular, precise manner. One of anything plus one of anything else always equals two. There aren’t any exceptions. The Bible tells us that God is the one who, day after day, holds this universe together. Math only continues to operate consistently because God never changes. Objects always interact the same way because God is still holding those objects together in the same manner as He has since the beginning of time.