Freedom, Morality, and God

2026-01-23

I've come to understand that logic isn't so clear cut. Logic is set upon an agreed premise. If your premise is shaky, your logic will also be shaky. How does logic and God work together, anyway? Atheists and Theists will forever be caught in a limbo, each calling the other side illogical.

If we propose that God is logos, and from logos the world became, should it mean that God is just another set of rules?
In linguistics, there is a branch which aims to find the universal aspect between all the languages of the world. That universal aspect should be outside of the languages themselves, just like we may say that for God to have created the world, he must then be outside of it. If God should be outside of it, is His influence then limited? Believers will adamantly say that God can do no harm, he is the picture perfect idea of morality (debatable). If there is nothing above Him, then there can be no evil influence that trumps Him (such as Satan). So if He is not the source of evil in this world, and evil is just the outcome of our freedom of choice, then neither is He the source of good in the world, it must also be a function of human choice.

Just like the laws of physics or the laws of nature, there supposedly should be "a law of God" - a law outside of our own moral judgement. Nature or physics don't adhere to notions of "good" and "bad", so the laws of God would not have any moral merits of their own either. The laws of God then would be a set of rules that humans agreed upon, just like they did when they researched the natural laws, which observe the phenomena that exist in our world. The laws of God would observe the phenomenon of morality, God is "the perfect example" of what we'd like pure unchanging morality to be. Infinite love and infinite justice, in the face of this confusing and harsh existence.
Could it be said, then, that our ultimate reason for existence is freedom, and our ability to execute it? Is all we ever long for just the knowledge of how to make use of this freedom which has been afforded to us, and how to use it well?