Creation And Logic

If the Bible actually did teach that God created logic, which is in no way synonymous with the human intellect and thus was not brought into existence when God created humans, one of the best places to look for it would be the creation story at the beginning of Genesis.  Many Christians claim the impossible by saying that God created everything, as if a being without a beginning could have created itself and as if anything could bring necessary truths into existence when they already have to exist by their own necessity.  Of course, they rarely point to Genesis 1 as supposed Biblical evidence for this impossibility.

If they did read Genesis 1 with the intention of discovering Biblical support for the idea that God created logic, they would engage in a fruitless search!  The first chapters of Genesis describe how God created time, the physical cosmos, and living creatures on the earth, but it never says that God created necessary truths, which exist independent of any divine, natural, or biological entity.  God only created things that did not conflict with the laws of logic.  Moreover, a deity that is outside of the metaphysical governance of reason (which is utterly impossible) would terrify many of the Christians who claim to love such a God, as this being could exist and not exist at once, be honest and dishonest at the same time, and so on.

Even if the Bible did say such a thing, it would be false by necessity, as logic is not something that can be removed from existence or brought into existence; logic is the only thing that exists for no reason other than its own necessary nature without reference to any other thing.  Other things can only exist if they are logically possible or if they are logically required in light of some other truth.  That the Bible does not teach that God created everything is one of its doctrines that actually makes it logically possible for Christianity to be true in the first place.

John 1:1-3 even clarifies that Yahweh and Jesus jointly created only every kind of thing in existence which was "made" (in other words, broad categories of things like material objects, human life, and so forth).  In saying this, it specifies that God only created certain things, which is exactly what Genesis 1 already teaches without using the same wording.  God did not create himself, which would be a logical impossibility, but he could not have possibly created the very laws of logic that necessitate the existence of an uncaused cause.  To argue that God created everything is only a conscious or ignorant rebranding of total skepticism through the self-defeating rejection of logic's universal necessity.

Logic is not the same as consistent behaviors of physical phenomena, the intellect of any mind (even God's), or a sense of empirical stability.  It is a set of self-verifying laws that both dictate and reveal what follows and what does not follow from true and hypothetical concepts.  Since logic is immaterial, it transcends matter.  Since logic cannot be changed by any will, it transcends all minds--including the divine mind.  That logic is more fundamental and necessary than God himself is not a heretical dismissal of the Biblical God's nature, but it is actually a prerequisite to consistently understanding the Bible to begin with, including the book of Genesis that contains the creation story.

Logic, people.  It is very fucking helpful.