Then Reason Came Riding on a Horse

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

"Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf. Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons. Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he?"

The apostle Paul here uses the law of non-contradiction to show that sin is irrational, illogical. It is simply either-or in this case. No amount of qualification can weld the contradictory ideas of serving God and worshipping idols, demons. One simply "cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons." God is a God of reason, and even moreso He is Reason Himself. I find it awesomely fascinating that 'truth', which is a property of propositions alone after all, is personified in Jesus Christ, moreover He is considered to be The Word! Jesus is Reason/Truth/Logos Himself. Apart from Him there is only confusion, deception and lies. And indeed, God cannot contradict Himself, He acts only consistent to His Character — Goodness, Love, Justice, Truth and Reason. There is this grandness to the implications of this, some of which is just how utterly praiseworthy and immensely deserving of worship, God really is!

Isaiah 1:16-20

"Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. "Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord; though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken."

~12.11.2013