Defenders of the faith use this argument, and others like it, frequently. These arguments are really another way for those who believe in god to say something like “we cannot understand the origin of the laws of logic - therefore they must be of god”. I, however, would not agree that the laws of logic prove god’s existence. If the laws of logic are from god, then they should confirm god’s existence - not deny it. Do these laws confirm god’s existence? I don’t think so.
Using the laws of logic that god is supposed to have created, let us look at the claim that he created this universe of ours. According to the Christian, god, in all of his wisdom, created this vast universe of ours. Scientists tell us that all space and time began with the origin of the universe. Now, according to god’s logic, if all space and time began with the origin of the universe, as we are being told, then there was none before it. Now, if there was no space or time before the universe, how then, did god logically managed to do anything - including creating this universe. God’s logic tells us that this could not have been possible.
Then we are told that god is infinite. Logic demands that, as with any living entity, god is composed of actions that are finite in nature. Examples are abounding in the bible. We have him creating the first couple, causing the flood, freeing his “chosen” people from bondage, parting the Red Sea, raising the dead while and earth and dying on the cross. All of these actions took a finite amount of time and they occurred in sequence. Even if he can do several things at the same time, they still take up some instance of time. Using god’s logic, we arrive at a very serious contradiction with god.
If god is made up of a series of finite actions (which, as far as we know, he must be) requiring a series of finite instances of time, then what was his first action, seeing that he is an infinite entity? As he is infinite, unlike us mere mortals, there is no way that he can know this - logically. Since there is no way that he can logically go back to his first actions, how could he have logically arrived at his present action? Using the laws of logic that he created, how did he arrive at that moment when he created the universe, caused the flood or died on the cross? Using god’s logic, this is impossible.
People who continue to say that the laws of logic must be of god seeing that they are too big for us mere mortals only posit that argument because they can’t figure out where they came from - assuming, of course that they had to come from “someone” or “something”. This claim, rather that proving that there is a god who made the laws of logic is trying to use the laws of logic to make god. If we should follow god’s laws of logic, we would see, quite clearly that god is illogical.
We may not know who “created” the laws of logic, but thinking logically, it could not be god, unless, of course, he made the laws of logic to deny him - maybe to “test our faith” perhaps?
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