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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 9 years ago

Why does believing in God requires you to suspend logic?

An All-Knowing Omni-potent, unlimited God who has always existed and does not need to source for its existence is a logical impossibility, unless these adjectives are attributed to God compared to other creatures rather than giving them absolute values.

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  • 9 years ago
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    why do you automatically assume belief in higher power is logically impossible?

    theologically speaking, you need to hit the books and get back to squared roots. & I'm not just referring to the stereotypical bible, or any book sanctioned by a religious sect. Rather I say that there are a plethora of philosophical & scientific papers done that do a bang on job reasoning for the existence of a Godlike power in the universe. Even the word Universe itself points to the oneness of everything and the strengths within, but I digress...

    Source(s): Illuminati.
  • 9 years ago

    It doesn't.

    From your question's structure, you have suspended logic, and assumed something about the absolute values that might define the undefinable. Just because you want to set up a nice little strawman to destroy.

    Oh, and you do accept there is an absolute zero, don't you? And that there was a Big Bang to start the Universe (ie an absolute beginning to time)? And probably Evolution as an absolute? All of these are every bit as bad as a blind belief in God, and not really all that different.

  • 9 years ago

    If it's a logical impossibility, the concept of God as you describe it must be contradictory by virtue of the meaning of the concepts within that description. Clearly unlimited realms and powers are conceivable because of the notion of uncountably infinite numbers, although Russell's Paradox is a possible problem there. However, if the Principia Mathematica fails to provide a consistent basis for number theory, the result would not be the rejection of number theory but the rejection of Russell's work instead. How would your suggestion be different? There might be a way of finding a contradiction in the concept of God but this is not it.

  • 9 years ago

    Because scientific logic neither prove or disprove god, so when you take the God exists way you negate logic's opinion about the matter.

    And, if you believe in God you must believe in the spaghetti monster, both unseen can't be tested scientifically....and if you believed in those 2 beings then you must believe in Russel's teapot along with many examples of many different hypothesis of creators, unseen beings.

    If you want to take the God's hypothesis without the others then you are illogical.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    It doesn't require the suspension of logic to believe in God. In fact, God requires us to examine the available evidence (Deuteronomy) and reason things out (Isaiah).

  • Rick G
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I look at it the other way.

    Logic dictates that when something happens, it has a Cause. The sciences say that the Universe happened, but they have NO idea of the Cause. They get all creative, building models of Multiverses, recycling universes, etc, trying to avoid a Cause that is supernatural.

    To believe that there was no First Cause then is to be suspending logic.

  • 4 years ago

    shield GOD? people call for it? 1b492a3c1a5acead27c9fd7554c215764ee989637f1492b47e6299ef36a22 it quite is your answer: homicide is a criminal term. It has to do with the regulation. as an occasion: you're a policeman and you respond to a hostage undertaking the place the suspect has the sufferer at gun factor. in case you shoot the suspect you're a hundred% criminal and merely doing what you're paid to take action as to guard the community. in case you stroll up on the comparable undertaking and willingly shoot the sufferer, then you definitely've merely devoted homicide. those stupid arguments are merely people making excuses for their very own conviction. They understand they have sin of their existence and that on my own could desire to be a extensive enormous fat clue that GOD exist yet regrettably, they conflict and examine out to choose GOD away. If GOD wont magically disappear with unbelief they'll attack his followers.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    A farmer hoed the field and each day he believed for the effort was not in vain for out of the earth and dust come life. The rain come and was needed and the farmer despised the logic of the lazy and scornful men.

    They come after the work of the farmer at night and stole from him and his good effort was in vain. It is clear

    to the farmer how evil imagination reigns against the hardworking kindness and helpfulness of good people.

    In the night winds they howl like wolves these scornful and lazy men while they drink from the juices of their own sins.

  • 9 years ago

    So does the Big Bang Theory, dudn't mean you don't believe in the observable Universe, which is at a different time than you.

  • 9 years ago

    It doesn't. Who told you everyone who believes in God is required to believe in the version you've just described?

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