Can God work beyond logic?
This is a disturbing question.
First, we need to make some terms clear. Nowadays, we use the word "illogical" quite off-labelled - when a couple quarrels, the girl may fire: You are being so illogical - well, I must say that, he may act or speak in irrational reasoning, but he is definitely still under the boundary of logic.
Day to day, like oxygen, we live so close with and actually rely very much on logic, we simply cannot get out of it. An closer analogy would be Newton's law F=ma, its almost impossible to have an actual example (not those hypotheses in theoretical physics) that violates it. And logic would be something even more primitive, as Newton derived the law also from logic.
So, when we are dealing with problems, we would best use the exclusive terms "logically possible" and "logically impossible" (where the exclusivity also embraced the simple logic of true+ not true = all). By means of logically impossible, it indicates a self-contradictory property eg. an angled circle.
With this basis, the notion "God can work beyond logic" can be rendered meaningless - because we simply don't understand what does it mean by beyond logic - do you mean he can work in logically impossible way or do you not?
At least for what I believe, God has to follow our logic (or His logic if you feel it offensive, or in stricter term, the logic), at least in all his messages left for us, or else, there is no ground at all for us to build any faith or understanding on this so called religon.
Even if He does create or do something logically impossible, would that actually mean anything to the-definitely-logically-bound you?
so what do you think about the stone problem? :P
回覆刪除Haha, the everlasting paradox.
回覆刪除To me, I tend to agree what the stone problem has disproved - a completely almighty God.
What remains is, actually I would like to take a step back. I believe in a God who possesses the adequate power to create and run the world. He may not necessarily be truly almighty to an absolute extent, but to the fleshy me, that's more than enough.
An interesting point might be, I observed that Christians tend to feel very offended while somebody challenges their almighty God. When I tried to explain the above views to them, they reacted pretty furiously, considering my opinion as "compromising the perfectness of God"...but in fact, does it really matter if one has $100,000,000,000 or he has an infinite amount? As long as he is the richest among the universe, he-is-the-richest.
Umm, what do you think?