What If Faith is Really Reason or Logic?

What if faith is really reasonable and logical and not just believing something for the sake of believing? There is an old song that talks about faith as just believing that God does what He says.

Believing that God does what He says is not just a belief; it is logical. It is logical that the God of all creation is trustworthy and will do what He has said He will do.

What if creation is logical and evolution is illogical?

What if commitment in marriage is logical and divorce is illogical?

What if submission to authority is logical and going it on your own is illogical?

I have often heard, from the higher up academics in this world, that Christianity is illogical and simpletons have to rely on faith rather than reason. This may sound like a “sound” argument, but it actually lacks any sensible thinking.

It is rather easy to illustrate with simple objects around us. If one would take a pen and look at it, one could and should easily conclude that the pen had a designer and a purpose in the design. I  would reasonably argue that anyone who chose to think that the pen had no designer, and therefore, no purpose, was foolish at best. One must also conclude that the pen had a manufacturer, or a process by which it came from concept to reality. Once again, for someone, anyone, to think otherwise would put them in the “foolish” category, and it would be reasonable to assume that no one would object to such thinking.

Even though you may not know the designer or manufacturer of the pen, and the idea of making ink flow at a constant rate to the paper is a mystery to you, there is still a simple understanding of its origin based on a logic that, I believe, is God-given to all mankind.

This logic can be abandoned, and when it is abandoned we assume and actually do silly things with the things created. Since I own the pen, I could use the pen in any way I desire. Should I decide to use it as a canoe paddle, I can do that. Even the casual observer would conclude, without even seeing me attempt this feat, that the use of a pen as a canoe paddle is a silly idea. We would know that it is a silly idea because the pen was designed and manufactured to be a pen, and works rather well as a pen, but is a lousy canoe paddle, and will only frustrate someone trying to use it as a canoe paddle.

I am not suggesting that the owner of the pen does not have the choice to use it as a canoe paddle, or as a nail, dart, or Q-tip, for they have the right to do with the pen as they please, since it is their pen. I am suggesting that to use it for purposes other than those for which it was designed and manufactured makes one foolish.

If one can reasonably conclude that a pen has a purposeful design and had been manufactured with that design in mind, one must also conclude that man, animals, roses, stars, and the entire universe, which are all much more complex than a pen, must have had a designer who had a purpose and a maker who created it all in a way that would allow them to accomplish their purposes. To think otherwise would make one foolish.

In fact, the more “science” moves away from the idea of there being a specific creator who created things with a plan, the more foolish man looks. In many ways we are and have become a society that reflects the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes. While we admire what is not really there, the angels in the universe are probably laughing at our prideful and foolish arrogance.

Faith is only available to those who embrace reason. It is not available to those who abandon reason and want to believe foolish ideas of mass explosions, accidental blobs of protoplasm, and order being established from chaos.

The Bible tells us that in the beginning, God. It is reasonable to assume that there was and is an ultimate designer, cause, or plan. The Scriptures tell us that God created. Once again, this fits logic or reason, and it would seem logical or reasonable to seek the designer in order to see and live within the context of how and why we were created.

The Bible tells us that God created man and woman and that it was not good for man to be alone. In fact, all of the plant and animals made did not fulfill Adam; only another person of the opposite gender did that.

It is clear that God made man and woman different, and thereby man and woman have different purposes. Having a different purpose does not make one better or worse. It makes one different, and wise individuals live within the context of the created purpose. Men were not designed to have babies or have intimate relationships with other men, and women were not designed to have sexual relationships with other women.

To abandon logic or reason leaves one confused. We are confused today as to what gender is, what its role is, and what marriage and relationships are all about. The idea of family is being redefined, and is so inclusive it has become rather confusing.

God told us in the book of Romans, the first chapter, that those who abandon reason will be allowed to, and what would happen, as a result of abandoning reason, is that men would lust after men and women after women, something totally apart from how things were meant to be.

In this way, man becomes like a pen used as a canoe paddle, and then wonders why life seems too hard, unproductive, lonely, and meaningless.

Those who embrace logic and reason are able to exercise faith. They do not have faith in their understanding, but faith in the One who does understand. They have faith because logic is evident to all. It is put in the hearts of all, and they have not replaced logic with understanding.

When one abandons logic and lives according to their understanding, terrible things happen. Hitler, Lenin, and others lived according to their understanding, but abandoned all logic, and the result was devastating. Many people refuse to have faith in God or believe there is a God because they do not “understand” Him.

Their abandonment of logic/reason will destroy their lives and all of the lives they influence, and many will miss out on the simple purposes God designed for this life and the eternity to come.