Before picking up this book as an undergrad in pure maths, I still had romantic ideas about a separate platonic universe and the divine authority of mathematics to explain all human thought.
This book, along with studying the various geometries, each with a different choice of axioms not necessarily based in ‘reality’, destroyed the majority of that romance.
Mathematicians of the past sought perfection for the glory of God. Now we have the opportunity to give credit where it’s due: to our fellow human beings, many of whom devoted their lives to the craft of mathematics.
"Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise." (Ecclesiastes 7:16)
"There is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus." (Romans 3:22-23)
I wonder whether Gödel would have pursued the Proof if he did not believe in an omnipotent god.
Cantor believed that he had been chosen as a messenger by God to be the recipient of what was to become set theory.