In her March 24 column, April Goodwin stated: “Experiential and emotional reasons for belief are faulty because everyone’s experiences lead them to believe different things. The truth should be determined by and founded on logical reasoning.”

I agree to an extent. Emotions are important, but we should not allow them to rule our lives. We need logical reasons to explain why we believe the way we do.

Unfortunately, some things cannot be proven by logic. I remember from Phil 201 that there is no way to logically prove our world actually exists.

I checked with a philosophy professor who said there is no way to prove that our world exists. We must accept it as a starting point and move on from there.

Obviously, there are some things that have to be accepted “by faith” without evidence from logical reason alone.

Is it possible that God is bigger than the world He created and cannot Himself be proven by logical reason alone? If we cannot prove the existence of the world by logical reason, how can we prove the existence of the one who created it?

God’s wisdom is so vast we aren’t able to understand it. His wisdom is greater than the wisdom of the scholars and philosophers of this age. Their arguments will eventually be rendered useless because even the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men ( 1 Corinthians 1: 19-25).

If God’s foolishness is wiser than our wisdom, we may not be able to ever reason His existence. Some things, like the existence of our world, must also be accepted by faith.

Kathryn Sterling

Junior

Psychology