Nois Forme
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So....logic is required....
I tend to think so, yes. It appears many (most?) religious students I've debated with and theologians I've read or listened to tend to think so as well. Though I did have at least one admit that he didn't necessarily think that god needed to operate within logical bounds, but in order to engage in debate at all, he had to go ahead and assume it was so (and that his prof suggested he approach it that way).
What if God is not altogether logical?
In my estimation? Theists would be in a world of hurt when it comes to attempting to argue rationally for their god.
Consider one possible conclusion we could arrive at if god does not operate within logical bounds; It is entirely possible for such a being to both exist, and not exist, simultaneously (something I don't think many theists want to grapple with).
I believe at least one argument for a logical god, was that all that we perceive about us, and within ourselves, seem to adhere to logic without exception, and that from this we should conclude a logical creator. I don't know that that necessarily follows, but that's the idea anyway.
What if this life and living is just one big joke.....
and some people just don't get it?
That is my conclusion at the end of most days. It's all rather absurd.