How much is a person worth? A balance sheet is no way to measure a person’s worth. Some of the most heinous people in the world were very wealthy, yet they were worthless human beings.
People have intrinsic value, as humans. People have historic value which is the sum of their contributions to humanity, as only God can know. People also have potential value.
In 2008 my real estate crashed, as did my small airplane. I was flying a Piper Cub reproduction when the motor seized turning downwind in the flight pattern. It spiraled downward, going into a tailspin. I turned into the spin and pushed the nose of the plane straight down to get as much airspeed as possible. Right before hitting the ground, I pulled up, but did not have enough airspeed to fly. The plane crashed into the ground. I remember hearing the wheels break off, and seeing the tail of the plane fold across in front of the windscreen as the aircraft rolled into a ball of wreckage. I popped out unscathed. God saved my life (more than once) thus assigning a value to it. Now it is my responsibility to spend this currency wisely.
God is not subject to time or space. You can’t say, “where is God?” because he is not subject to the illusion of space, and all of space is before him. Space is a finite construct. To ask “where is God?” is like asking where in the computer program is the programmer who wrote it. The whole program is before the programmer, and the programmer is not subject to the code he as written.
Time and space are one in the same. Physicists now call them time-space. In the same way you cannot say, “when did God begin?” because he is not subject to time, and all of time is before him. All of space-time is a finite construct within the greater reality of God’s spiritual dimension, just as all of a computer program is a small construct within the greater universe of the computer programmer who wrote it.
God is infinitely powerful, and of infinite worth. Half of infinity is infinity. One-millionth of infinity is still an infinite number. One-trillionth of infinite value is still an infinite value. Because the infinite God became a man and died to purchase humanity, paying the price of infinite value, what then is the value of humanity? What then is the value of one human?
Don’t get your sense of self-worth from your good deeds, but in the fact of who you were created to be, who God made you to be, and that He died for you, and would have died for you if you were the only person in the world.
Taylor Moffitt of Halydean 