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If the closer you get to foundational reason leads to unreason, and God is the foundation of all things, then human understanding cannot reasonably categorize God as reasonable.
I will go in-depth further on this quote I provided, as I think I can provide a few good examples of this premise. The two examples I will thoroughly dig in to will be Hume and Solomon. Hume will naturally provide the conclusion in his own words, and I will try to conclude my premise through Solomon’s story.
Reason is the foundation of all perception, almost an unconscious state of knowing and repetition. It is reasonable to believe that my car will take me to work, it is reasonable to believe that my phone will work accordingly, and it is reasonable to believe that if I strike my hands together it will make a clapping sound. The reason I bring up the unconscious foundation of reason, is to suggest that through repetition we do not think twice about one thing acting in accordance with its nature.
David Hume & Reason
David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment wanted to flip foundational belief on its head and forgo any previous reason he had. He started questioning everything and becoming a hyper skeptic of everything around him. His deep dive into reason allowed for great works and deep thought but was affecting his life for the worse. Hume was beginning to turn into a nihilist in nature.
The deeper he got into hyper-skepticism of reason, the more nihilistically depressed he became.
In a paraphrased summary, Hume then went on to say that nature allowed for him to get away from the nihilistic nature of reason. Being around friends, playing games, allowing for natural instances to give him joy, is what made him ponder his prior decision of reason. If these natural instances give me joy, why must I leave it, and go back to my reason of darkness? Hume then said he would never go back to his study of reason again.
The more Hume started to question everything around him, to try and understand divine foundation of reason, the more he saw no purpose in life.
Solomon & Reason
Solomon, the wisest man on Earth, was gifted all-knowledge of the world, and potentially also the divine. Through this, he was able to impress a lot of people and was luxurious in nature due to this ability to discern and reason.
However, in a summary, Solomon says that nothing matters.
How could this be? That the wisest man on Earth’s final conclusion was that nothing matters? I think it is because the closer your knowledge is to the divine principle of foundation, the more the human understanding cannot comprehend and ultimately gives up on itself. Knowing about how all things worked did not give Solomon joy, it gave him nihilism. You can also reference Socrates’ quote on, “I know that I know nothing.” Or Descartes quote on, “I think therefore I am.”
This absurd rabbit hole of questioning divine reason destroys the beauty of God’s complex design.
God & Reason
I will refer back to the famous “Hume and the fork in the road” with the start of this heading. Either God is all reason, or God is unreasonable. Therefore, we should believe that everything is reasonable or that everything is unreasonable.
In theory, it is not reasonable for me to become the most famous author on Earth, but someone has to be it right? If God can do all things, and I can do all things in him, is this self-belief in myself reasonable or unreasonable? If you say reasonable, then you have cracked the code to drive, ambition, and optimism. If you say unreasonable, then God is therefore unreasonable, which makes everything unreasonable.
Either way then, I am allowed to reasonably/unreasonably think this way without a shadow of a doubt.
The more you try and interpret the divine through human understanding, the more you will lose purpose in God’s plan for you on Earth. Some things we cannot interpret, and this is okay. This is the sole reason why we need a God, a Jesus, a holy spirit in our lives in the first place. God is all-knowing, in everything, and all-powerful.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me – Philippians 4:13
Is it now unreasonable for you to chase your dreams due to it not being reasonable in your head? But if you can do anything with God on your side, does it therefore not make it reasonable?
Whether reasonable or unreasonable, you CAN do anything you want in life with God on your side. Have a delusional optimism about yourself, think that you are what you say you think you are. Allow for your brain to produce “reasonable/unreasonable” goals and strive for it, as nothing is reasonable/unreasonable with God.
Go get what you want out of life, there is only one.
