Let me ask you this question.

Can reality ever be contradictory?

There's a whole host of people who believe that it can, who believe that something can

be in a spot and not be in a spot at the same time and in the same relationship.

People have developed a doctrine of God, particularly in evangelical circles, although

not exclusively in evangelical circles, that God's reason is on a different plane from man's

reason, so that what is irrational to man or contradictory to man may be rational to God.

Now, you've heard that.

I've asked this question of many, many groups that have been through the Lignair Valley

Study Center.

I'll say this, can truth ever be contradictory?

And I've had more evangelical Christians answer that question, yes, than I've ever heard from

pure secularists. Evangelical Christians are one to say, well, sure, God can do anything. God can square the circle. God

can make two and two five. God can violate the law of contradiction. And some things that look to us as

being contradictions are perfectly rational to God. Confusing mystery with contradiction. Now, all Christians would admit that the mind cannot grasp

everything there is to God, that God's being and the knowledge of God at points

transcends the limits of human reason. But it's one thing to say that God transcends the limits of human reason.

It's another thing to say that above the limitations of human reason, here's reason or

rationality. And up here we call super irrationality, that is, that level where we cannot penetrate through rational deduction.

But it's one thing to call this level super rationality. It's another thing to call it

irrationality. Irrationality is what we call nonsense.

Now I'm using that term advisedly, nonsense.

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