Posing (as a Math Question)

[Sparkey]

In Intermediate Algebra, we've been taught that certain Relations are Functions; have been taught about the "Vertical Line Test".

For those who don't quite follow what this means a brief explanation may help. Relations, in the field of mathematics, define the relationship between two or more sets of anything (including numbers). Functions are a certain, specific, kind of Relation where for every input there is exactly one (1) output.

A couple quick examples:
If we consider the "Y" axis the Output Variable and the "X" axis (the horizontal) as the Input:

We may see that a diagonal line expresses a function because for each input variable (every point along the 'X' axis) is related to exactly one (and only one) output plotted here along the 'Y' axis.
A Circle graph shows a relation, certainly, but it is not a function because for at least one input there is more than one output.
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. o O (Enough with the math already)

Okay, enough with the math already. Stop 'posing' as a math question. Got'cha. How about we, having laid the foundation, switch gears and speak of something that has greater use. Consider the following:

“This is My commandment:

That you love one another
Just as I have loved you."​

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Is this a function? Indeed it is. We, as Children of God, are commanded to have one and only one output.

Next Question: "Do all of our relationships pass the Vertical Line Test?"

If your frank reply to this is similar to mine? Be assured that God is greater than your heart and that for Him? All things are possible. All things. We each do well to trust Him to rightly establish our relations so that they align as functions, so that we too may share the "Mind of Christ."

 

[Claudya]

what about y = √x ?
√x has two correct solutions. E.g. √4 = 2 and -2.

Eh, I guess I'm just not getting your analogy.

Are we the x variable and our love for God is the y variable? Or is this just a way to say that our love for God should be as unique as Y should be to each X?

 

[Sparkey]

Christ is all in all.

This means that He is the input into us, and the Output is our love for each other.

In one sense it isn't a function because there are other Outputs too, for instance, as we Love God, and as we express our love one to another, we are kept in perfect peace for "Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on Thee."

The result of the "relation" is that the Mind of Christ is formed in us even as we act on His Word.