Does logic apply to God..? Part 2
A friend posted the following as a supplement to the post before this, regarding logic not applying to God.
"I think most people simply do not understand what logic is. They immagine it to be some esoteric, unnecesary thing that the layman need not worry about.
You made the statement "The thought process of looking at something, and then linking it to something else, is based in logic.", I would take this further and say that the very fact that you can look at something and recognise that it is a thing automatically implies logic, these are the simple axioms from which we derive logic.
Something to which logic does not apply, we wouldn't be able to have a concept of, we wouldn't be able to speak about it or even hypothesize it's existence. The mere fact that theists can say "God exists" requires the truth of logic with regard to every part of the statement, particularly the subject. It is so disshonest to holf that God is not subject to logic because to even hold this statement you jave to hold that the statement is logical, and for the statement to be logical it has to have a subject that can be deal with through logic.
You are right, when you say that if God is not subject to logic then any conversation about it becomes completely irrelevant, but I do not think we have to take it this far, the theist has already admitted that he considers God to be subject to logic, by admitting that he considers God at all. The human mind can't compute non-logical concepts, as hard as I try I can't even begin to think of a thing which is not itself, it's just not possible for the human mind to deal with concepts which may or may not be themselves."
"I think most people simply do not understand what logic is. They immagine it to be some esoteric, unnecesary thing that the layman need not worry about.
You made the statement "The thought process of looking at something, and then linking it to something else, is based in logic.", I would take this further and say that the very fact that you can look at something and recognise that it is a thing automatically implies logic, these are the simple axioms from which we derive logic.
Something to which logic does not apply, we wouldn't be able to have a concept of, we wouldn't be able to speak about it or even hypothesize it's existence. The mere fact that theists can say "God exists" requires the truth of logic with regard to every part of the statement, particularly the subject. It is so disshonest to holf that God is not subject to logic because to even hold this statement you jave to hold that the statement is logical, and for the statement to be logical it has to have a subject that can be deal with through logic.
You are right, when you say that if God is not subject to logic then any conversation about it becomes completely irrelevant, but I do not think we have to take it this far, the theist has already admitted that he considers God to be subject to logic, by admitting that he considers God at all. The human mind can't compute non-logical concepts, as hard as I try I can't even begin to think of a thing which is not itself, it's just not possible for the human mind to deal with concepts which may or may not be themselves."
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