Welcome to World Logic Day. The “Logica Universalis Association encouraged logicians around the world to coordinate independent events on January 14th, 2019. The logician community stepped up and hosted about 66 events in 33 different countries. Thanks to this first World Logic Day’s success, the UNESCO Executive Board proposed a proclamation for this day in the summer of 2019. On November 26, 2019, the 40th General Conference proclaimed January 14th to be World Logic Day. The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) coordinates the event each year.”1
For those who grew up watching Star Trek, Leonard Nimoy played the rational, logical, unemotional Mr. Spock. Responses were calculated and mathematical. His last logical statement was made in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan when, after entering the engine room that was filled with radiation in order to save the Enterprise from destruction. Once the room was cleared of radiation, Spock was on one side of the glass wall, dying, and Kirk was crumpled on the other side of the glass with his friend. Spock defended his heroic actions by saying, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one.”
That was just logical.
Today, we come to church and open the Word of God. The world hurls their accusations that this is anything but logical. However, I would submit to you that God’s Word is logical, serving Him is logical, and God’s Word can stand up to any skeptical comment or question.
For starters, consider a familiar verse that we looked at on 1/12/24. 1 Peter 2:2-3 says, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (3) If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.” When we read word, we automatically know that this is a reference to the Word of God. What we probably didn’t know is that the Greek word for word is logikos which means logic that pertains to reason. God’s Word calls itself logical. The Bible is a logical Book.
Then, we have Romans 12:1. “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Reasonable is also the Greek word logikos. It only makes good, logical, reasonable sense to serve the Lord with full surrender and abandon.
In Isaiah 1:18, humanity is invited to “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” The Apostle Paul is recorded in Acts 17:2 doing this with the people of Thessalonica. “And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures.”
The Hebrew word for reason means to prove, decide, judge, and to show to be right. The Greek word that Paul used is the word from which we get the word dialogue. Paul wasn’t preaching to these people. They were having discussions, conversing, discussing, arguing, and debating. God’s Word is logical and can stand up to logical reasoning.
Many times, the accusation is made that Christians just believe things by faith. There is no proof or scientific evidence. Those comments fail when you realize how much of “science” lacks empirical proof. That’s why they call it a theory which gets elevated to the status of fact.
I fully admit that there are things in the Bible which cannot be scientifically proven or reproduced. However, compiled evidence leads me to make a reasonable, rational, logical conclusion that sides with God’s account of a situation. When man tries to explain their theory of the miraculous happenings of Scripture, more faith is required to believe their version than to believe God’s!
The sermon today will be logical. The Sunday School lesson will be logical. Praising, worshipping, giving, serving – it’s all logical. It just makes good sense!
1https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/science/world-logic-day-january-14
