Is logic the highest form of knowledge?

I have contemplated this topic off and on. I have asked the question of whether logic is the highest form of knowledge. You might be wondering what I mean. I understand. Let me explain.

The reason I posit this question is for the sake of those who would use logic as the be all and end all of human knowledge and wisdom. You will often find in the intellectual crowd that logic is their standard for everything. And that would make sense if everything just ended with what we can physically observe. I can even understand this type of thinking to some degree. I’m a very logic oriented person. However, is that all there is?

When you think about logic itself, it can be very compelling. It can seem like the standard by which to measure everything. If I can’t understand it logically, then it must not be valid. But there are things we all know exist that defy logic and are valid. I think love is one of these things. Human beings will, at times, love when it doesn’t make any sense for them to do so. So, how do we explain that using logic?

The reality is that many people are often making a fatal assumption when they make logic and human reason the bar against which they measure everything else. They are using reasoning to try to make sense of something that transcends reason. It’s not against reason, it’s just that it goes beyond reason. So, you are using a lower argument to try to disprove a higher argument. For instance, we all know and believe in gravity. We know that gravity exists and nothing is going to change that. It’s an unchanging truth. So, by the laws of gravity I am forced to conclude that if you throw something up in the air that it must fall back to the earth. Now, when I see an airplane fly over my head, do I say, “That’s impossible. That plane can’t fly because of the law of gravity.” No, I wouldn’t say that because I know that it doesn’t end with the law of gravity. There’s a law that transcends that law called the law of aerodynamics. That law says that an object can stay in the air when certain conditions are right.

Anyway, this is the kind of thing we run into when talking to atheists and their understanding of God and faith. They will say that God doesn’t exist. When, in reality, there’s no way they can possibly know that. I think the best they could say is, “I don’t know.” So, maybe they could be an honest agnostic, but not an honest atheist if they had never really thought about it. That’s not to say someone who has a faith in God has a blind faith either. We have reasons to believe God exists. In fact logic and reason are helpful in this because they bring us right up to the door of faith in God. But that last step is a step of faith.

…Let’s go deeper

When we think about God and our belief in Him, what has He given us? AV Romans 1:20 says, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” This verse in Romans shows us evidence God has left us of His work. It tells us, in essence, that through His creation He has not only revealed His existence to us but also revealed characteristics of His being. The conclusion is that if you’ve seen His creation, you are without excuse in not believing in Him. The existence of a creation would dictate the existence of a creator, wouldn’t it.

AV Psalms 19:1 says, <> “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” This isn’t some hodge podge of elements just thrown together is it? This planet is, itself, a finely tuned system and is filled with finely tuned organisms, including ourselves. We can see His magnificence in the stars in the sky. We also see the work of His hands here on this planet.

So, if we know we have reasons to believe God exists, then what about faith? Where does that come in? AV Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” God requires for us to use our faith to come to Him. He’s certainly given us reasons to believe and faith is that final step to Him.
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AV Romans 12:3 also says, “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” This last part of this verse emphasizes that each of us has been given the measure of faith. Everyone has enough faith to believe. Yet we each still need to choose to believe.

So, what’s the final answer? Is it enough to believe in God if I don’t know who He is? AV Acts 16:31 says, “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” The final answer is this. We are saved by not just our faith in God, but our faith in Jesus Christ and His death, burial and resurrection. Jesus paid it all so that we might live. This is what our faith is ultimately based on, and results in our salvation.

This is a rough paraphrase of a quote from Blaise Pascal: “God has revealed enough of Himself so that those who want to know Him can, yet He dwells in enough obscurity so that those who don’t want to know Him will never find Him.” The reality is we have many reasons to believe in God. Ours isn’t just a blind faith as some would have us to believe. Logic can take us right up to the door of faith, but that last step is still a step of faith.

AV Romans 1:20 says, “For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:”