Is God Logical?

Many a times we wonder as to whether we are who we really claim to be. What is this thing that makes us real? Is it our emotions? Could it be our physiology? Is it the idea that we can think or let’s say reason? Mmhhh.

It often said, actually the psalmist records (Bible) that we are wretched beings psalm 66:8-12 and in this condition we can do nothing of our own. But what if we can put things in perspective – here being what we can reason out with some form of logic while also appreciating that logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood (Ludwig Wittgenstein).

 If God really loved the world that He gave His only begotten son what makes it so hard for us to believe John 3:16 (The Bible)? Could it be that we can’t give our own for such a thing as man? Or is It that our selfish ambitions/desires/nature overpowers our ability to appreciate the good that the Lord has for us? If love compelled Him to send His son to save mankind, and love being believed to be truth for all cases then what logic is this are we not seeing/following?

For one to pay your fare in a bus, it follows that you must be there to be paid for. You cannot be paid for in a vacuum or if you do not intend to travel at all. If that be true then man had to be in the world to receive this child that was sent to save him. But does he know that he is lost?

One person said that if one is not aware that they are lost, then the truth of one being lost will not hold water at all because it is not warranted. There is no particular direction that one is looking forward to or they are aware – so they think - that all is well after all. Thus if one thinks that they are lost then it will be upon such to bring in the light. Now this light has to be logical. That is, it must make sense! If it be based on truth then a lie or a life driven by lies thought to be truth must be overcome by all means, thus aAll logical truth and all truths that logic can warrant must turn upon meaning in the sense of intension. Because logic and the lo...- MOREll logical truth and all truths that logic can warrant must turn upon meaning in the sense of intension. Therefore, why did God send His son?

If man is to appreciate this, knowing that the level of thinking of man is far much lower than that of God, then God’s son must be able to articulate this logic in a manner that makes sense to the lost man because, logic and the logically certifiable comprise only such facts as are independent of all particular experience and are capable of being known with certainty merely through clear and cogent thinking. The fact here is that man is lost and he needs to be found /directed to some place. Thus he must be aware of his current state/situation that needs help! This is truth! The same must hold of any analytic truth: if it is capable of being known by taking thought about it, then it must be independent of meaning in the sense of extension and turn upon meanings only in the sense of intension.

God’s son had an intention. He intended –and still does – to help man find his place. This is true. But this situation must be recognized by man who is being sought after but God’s so. As Tweedledee puts it, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." This must make sense or doesn’t it? For this reason God’s son came to save man but reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic (Nicola Abbagnano). But let us be real for just a minute. Logic is not concerned with human behavior. It is concerned with relations between factual sentences (or thoughts). If logic ever discusses the truth of factual sentences it does so only conditionally. Let’s stop here a little bit. God did send his son. The condition that He laid before men was that they believe in Him so as not to perish. Sense! Therefore we can see that the logic behind God’s intention was to save. And this is true!

Thus, one would say: if such-and-such a sentence is true, then such-and-such another

sentence is true. Logic itself does not decide whether the first sentence is true, but surrenders

that question to one or the other of the empirical sciences (sociology, psychology etc). As it is

written, For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever

believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life John 3:16. So, what is true in this

sentence? God sent His son. What is the other truth? The man may have life (does not perish).

I think He is logical. Don’t you?