That's . . . Illogical

Spock, from the TV show Star Trek, was famous for never letting his emotions get in the way of logic. He was such an interesting character because humans, in general, are known for just the opposite, letting their emotions get in the way of sound judgment. This can be seen in the world’s religions, including Christianity. Listening to the radio the other day, a person said that despite the fact that he was religious, he would never preach or argue religion. He said that faith was “just that,” and that he could never push his beliefs on anyone else. This is a prevailing thought among many today, both in those who believe in a deity and those who do not, that “faith is blind and can only be felt, not proven.” Even though we use logic in our everyday lives, and even teach it in our schools (critical thinking, deductive reasoning), we seem more than willing to put God outside its realm.

It Doesn’t Take A Genius!

The earth is five hundred jillion zillion years old. All mankind started out as a rock that became ooze, that became a worm, that became a monkey, that became our parents, and human life is worth about as much as a whale or a bird but not quite as much as a blind, albino, cave dwelling, three toed newt. Every day, very intelligent, learned people tell us that evolution is a foregone conclusion and that religion is just an archaic way of explaining the unexplainable. People do not seem to understand the implications of many of those theories. If evolution is correct, then that means that something that was not living, something like a rock, either turned into or produced something that was living. Also, it would naturally follow that something that was not human, something like a monkey, either turned into or gave birth to something that was human. Although evolutionists will say that these changes took place over hundreds of billions of years, at some point in that time period something that was not living became something that was living, and something that was not human became something that was human. Ask an atheist sometime, if dead matter can produce a conscience, spiritual capacity, or mere intelligence. Simple logic will go a long way in destroying evolution.

“You Can’t Prove God”

I do not pretend to be some great logician, nor do I have great intellectual prowess, but I know of others who could claim both. The late Dr. Thomas Warren, in the 1970's, debated one of the worlds foremost authorities on atheism, Dr. A. G. N. Flew of Redding University, England. By using logic, Dr. Warren fairly well trounced all over Dr. Flew’s arguments for evolution and against God. Warren gave a few arguments of how we know that Gods exists.

1. If there is even one characteristic, attribute or property of even one human being which could have come into existence only by the creative power of God, then that one human being constitutes proof that God does exist. 2. There is at least one characteristic, attribute or property of at least one human being which could have come into existence only by the creative power of God. 3. Therefore, that one human being constitutes proof (when the evidence is recognized and reasoned about properly) that God does exist.

What Warren is saying here is that if people possess a characteristic, like morality, which can only be explained by there being a creator, or giver of morality, then there must be a Creator (i.e., God). People do have morals, so it follows that there is indeed a Creator (i.e., God). For all those that say that morality is subjective and up to the individual or society that one is living in, Warren has an argument for that as well.

1. If the moral code and or actions of any individual or society can properly be subjects of criticism (as to real moral wrong), then there must be some objective standard (some “higher law which transcends the provincial and transient”) which is other than the particular moral code and which has an obligatory character which can be recognized. 2. The moral code and or actions of any individual or society can properly be subjects of criticism (as to real moral wrong). 3. Therefore there must be some objective standard (some “higher law which transcends the provincial and transient”) which is other than the particular moral code and which has an obligatory character which can be recognized.

Warren uses the actions of the Nazis during the holocaust of WWII. The Nazis thought that it was right to extinguish the Jewish population, but after the war when those who were responsible for the acts were tried at Nurnberg, they were found guilty of crimes against humanity. How, if there is not a higher moral law and ultimately a law giver, could one group of people or even one person judge anyone else who had a difference of opinion on moral issues? There is a higher moral law and therefore a giver of that law. Can we prove through logic that God exists? Certainly.

Conclusion

Logic is something that must not be left out where God is concerned. We can see that we are able to prove that there really is a God by natural observance. Now we must not stop there; we must continue on and use correct reasoning in every aspect of religion, “Test all things; hold fast what is good” (1 Thess. 5:21). We must be like the Bereans who “searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so” (Acts 17:11). If we do this, then we will “always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear” (1 Pet. 3:15). We cannot make a good defense of our faith without a sound argument, and we cannot make a sound argument without logic.