Can God defy logic or resolve paradox?

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Logic is generally held to consist of the systematic study of the form of arguments. A valid argument is one where there is a specific relation of logical support between the assumptions of the argument and its conclusion. Logic also is the study of fallacies and paradoxes.

Given the above definition, can God defy logic? Can God resolve a paradox.
 
If God can create the Paradox and the logic, God can certainly change the rules of the Paradox and the logic. You don’t have to use an ounce of intellect to arrive at the answer, Yes. In God, all things are possible.
 
I agree with WJeffrey.

God could, if He wanted, create a second universe where human understanding of ‘logic’ was different to ours.

Remember, even in this universe there are humans who disagree on whether or not a thing is paradoxical or logically impossible.

Ask a muslim if it is logically possible that God can have a Son.
 
Logic is a limit of our minds. God is beyond our understanding.
 
Bahman said:
Logic is generally held to consist of the systematic study of the form of arguments. A valid argument is one where there is a specific relation of logical support between the assumptions of the argument and its conclusion. Logic also is the study of fallacies and paradoxes.

Given the above definition, can God defy logic? Can God resolve a paradox.
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God is logic, right reason, as He is the Truth. A paradox is true and only seemingly a self-contradiction resolved by right reason. God cannot deceive or be deceived.
 
Logic is defyed and paradox resolved by understanding that can only be gained through Truth. And, God is Truth.
 
We have a taste of defying logic ourselves by means of surrealist poetry, painting, and music. Synesthesia–seeing sounds and hearing colors–seems illogical but exists. I believe through art and real-life happenings we gain a glimpse of the divine. In short, the answer is yes.
 
meltzerboy said:
We have a taste of defying logic ourselves by means of surrealist poetry, painting, and music. Synesthesia–seeing sounds and hearing colors–seems illogical but exists. I believe through art and real-life happenings we gain a glimpse of the divine. In short, the answer is yes.
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Excellent points sir 👍
 
WJeffrey said:
If God can create the Paradox and the logic, God can certainly change the rules of the Paradox and the logic.
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Logic is a part of knowledge so it cannot be created. We, human being, are cognitively open to logic and many other form of abstract knowledge such as mathematics so we can find this sort of knowledge. Paradox is part of logic too so they cannot be created.
WJeffrey said:
You don’t have to use an ounce of intellect to arrive at the answer, Yes. In God, all things are possible.
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So we conclude that in God, not all things are possible.
 
Lion_IRC said:
I agree with WJeffrey.

God could, if He wanted, create a second universe where human understanding of ‘logic’ was different to ours.

Remember, even in this universe there are humans who disagree on whether or not a thing is paradoxical or logically impossible.

Ask a muslim if it is logically possible that God can have a Son.
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Yes, we can be in another universe with different laws of nature but not different logic. In simple word, logic is universal form of knowledge.
 
From Dr. William Lane Craig, noted Christian apologist:
…You claim that God freely created logic and therefore transcends the rules of logic. Now why do you think that? Such a view, after all, is not the mainstream view of Christian theology but lies on the extremist fringe. By far and away most Christian theologians do not think that God has the power to do what is logically impossible or to have created different rules of logic so that what is logically impossible would have been logically possible. You seem to give two justifications for such a radical view: (i) God is omnipotent, and (ii) God is the creator of everything.

But as for (i) there is no reason to construe omnipotence to entail the ability to do the logically impossible (take a look at my Brown Bear and Red Goose book, “God Is All-Powerful”–or the relevant section in Philosophical Foundations!). Logical impossibilities like creating a round square or making a rock too heavy for God to lift are not “things” at all but just contradictory combinations of words. Moreover, if you do think that God can do logical impossibilities, then the problem of evil immediately evaporates, for then God can bring it about that both evil exists and He exists, even though that is logically impossible! Even if evil proves that it is logically impossible that God exists, God can bring it about that He does not exist and that He exists, so no problem!

As for (ii) I don’t think that the laws of logic are things, any more than are holes, Wednesdays, or numbers. So while God certainly is the Creator of all that exists, He needn’t be thought to be the Creator of logic’s laws. Rather I’d say that the laws of logic are a description of the functioning of God’s mind. The Bible says, “In the beginning was the Logos (word, reason), and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God” (John 1.1). God is the supremely logical thinker, and the laws of logic are a reflection of His mind, just as the moral law is a reflection of His character. Just as God did not arbitrarily make up the moral law, so He did not arbitrarily make up the laws of logic.

What you’re missing, then, is the third way between the horns of your dilemma: the laws of logic are neither arbitrarily willed by God nor is He subservient to them; rather they are grounded in His nature.
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Read more: reasonablefaith.org/god-evil-and-the-rules-of-logic#ixzz4A9R5TTUD
 
Bahman said:
Yes, we can be in another universe with different laws of nature but not different logic. In simple word, logic is universal form of knowledge.
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Now the grand question being how do you prove universal logic in an alternate universe with universal logic being as it is known here? Even if you logically deduce something, IF there is different logic such deduction falls flat.
 
WJeffrey said:
If God can create the Paradox and the logic, God can certainly change the rules of the Paradox and the logic. You don’t have to use an ounce of intellect to arrive at the answer, Yes. In God, all things are possible.
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No offense, but your answer shows you don’t have that ounce of that intellect you mention. Logic is not a created thing, it is a natural consequence of human reasoning. God did not invent it. It would exist if there were no God. 1+3 will never equal 5. Even if God demanded it be so. And as for paradoxes. They are just statements in a language that is imprecise enough to allow such meaningless statements. God could not make a square circle no matter how he tried. There is a big list of things God can not do.
 
laocmo said:
No offense, but your answer shows you don’t have that ounce of that intellect you mention. Logic is not a created thing, it is a natural consequence of human reasoning. God did not invent it. It would exist if there were no God. 1+3 will never equal 5. Even if God demanded it be so. And as for paradoxes. They are just statements in a language that is imprecise enough to allow such meaningless statements. God could not make a square circle no matter how he tried. There is a big list of things God can not do.
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Have you ever seen Bruce Almighty? How many fingers am I holding up? Lol… But think along those lines.
 
laocmo said:
Logic is not a created thing, it is a natural consequence of human reasoning. God did not invent it. It would exist if there were no God.
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Nothing would exist if there wasn’t a God.

But logic would exist even if humans didn’t.

Before mankind existed, things like the law of non-contradiction or two and two equaling four were still true. They’re not true just because a human mind happens to exist.

Therefore, logic cannot possibly be a consequence of human reasoning.
 
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