dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) (12/01/84)
> When we start talking >about God, things don't always work according to humanity's standards of >proof or logic. (Both Testaments are full of examples.) [Jeff Sargent] You seem to be saying that logic doesn't apply to God. Statements about God are made by humans, and expressed in human languages. Statements in human languages are made of words. Words, as I have pointed out before, have their meanings assigned to them by humans. The rules of logic are rules for manipulating statements made in human languages. Some religious people like to point out that logic is a merely human endeavour, and claim that this somehow puts God beyond its reach. But statements about God are made in mere human languages, using mere human words, (with human- assigned meanings), and therefore are subject to the rules of human logic. If God is truly inaccessible to human logical reasoning, it can only be that the truths about God are inaccessible to human languages. In which case it is *impossible* even to talk about God. Therefore, if you insist on trying to talk about God, you are implicitly denying your own belief in God's immunity from merely human logic. David Canzi