Is there a logical way to get to know God?

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Answer 1

Yes, there are logical arguments, such as those for a "necessary being." There are also modal ontological arguments that are valid, one formulated in symbolic logic by Kurt Godel who was one of the most famous logicians of the 20th century (and best friends with Einstein). He is most known for his "incompleteness theorem" that he wrote while in his early 20s. It has since changed the way people see the nature of mathematics, its scope, and limitations.

Answer 2

If we are awakened in the middle of the night by the noise of a lamp being knocked over downstairs, what is our first thougt? "There's someone in the house!" is our immediate (and perhaps frightened) reaction. Then, while we hold our breath and lisen anxiously for further noise, our min searches anxiusly for some other explanation. Did I leave a window open, so that the wind might have knocked the lamp over? Could it be the cat prowling around? Did one of the children wake up and go downstairs for something?

Now why is it that we feel we MUST find a reason or a crash of the lamp? Why not just say, "Nohing knocked the lamp over; it just happened, that's all," and turn over and go to sleep again? The reason why we have to find an answer for the noise is that we are sensible people; we have a mind that thinks, and we know that nothing happens unless something causes it to happen. That is so plain, that it hardly seems worth mentioning. "Whatever happens must have been caused by something else"; or as it is put, a little more technically, "Every effect must have a proportionate cause."

That is as plain, we would say, as the nose on our face. Yet there are fools who will deny that it is so. "We haven't seen everything yet," they will say. "Just because our experience up to now shows that every effect must have a cause, doesn't mean there couldn't be exceptions. Maybe in a billion cases, whatever happens will be caused by something else which happened first; and then maybe the quadrillionth time, something will happen without anybody or anything causing it to happen. We just haven't got all the facts yet."

It sounds stupid, doesn't it? And yet fools in self-defense have to deny the evidence of their own senses; he has to deny what is called the Principle of Causality -- the fact that every effect has a cause. He has to deny it, because for this principle is based one of the main arguments for the existence of God. There are many different ways of putting the argument, but it runs something like this:

From nothing, nothing comes. If you've got nothing to start with then you've got nothing to when you get through. No flour and eggs and sugar: then no cake; no acorn: then no oak-tree; no parents: then no child. So, unless there did exist a Being Who is eternal (that is, Who never had to begin existing, because existence is of His very nature a being Who is infinitely powerful (that is, He can make something out of nothing), then there just wouldn't be any world, there wouldn't be any you or me... And if the evolutionist says that it all began with a formless mass of atoms out there in empty space, we say, "All right but where did the formless mass of atoms come from?" No, it had to start with Someone, with Someone Who from all eternity enjoyed independent existence. And that Someone is precisely He Whom we call God.

Answer 3

I'm not sure I would use the word logical in the way a man reasons logic there is a correct way.

Answer 4

You get to Know Him by praying, reading the scriptures, where you learn about Him, His character and personality. He does laugh and He sings! Psalm 2, Hebrews 2:12

Answer 5

Jehovah A God Worth Knowing

Jehovah God, the Author of the Bible, wants us to get to know him. The psalmist wrote: "That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth." He recognizes that it is in our own best interests for us to know him. "I, Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit yourself." How do we benefit from knowing Jehovah God, the Most High?—Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 48:17.

The rest of this article is right here. Just click this link and get to really know your Creator!!! Even by name!!!!!
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/2/15/article_02.htm

Answer 6

Yes. Start talking to Him. You don't need to be on your knees in some church for Him to hear you. Go out into nature, or go somewhere that you can be alone with your thoughts. Start talking. He wants you to. He's got a lot to tell us if we will only listen. I used to live near the ocean. I would go to the beach by myself, especially on really windy days. I know God heard me out then. He let me know. He'll let you know too.

Answer 7

Yes, read His letter to us called the Bible, His Word.

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Answer 8

this should help ya out--- go to www.israelnet.tv click on programs then go to truth or tradition by M.Rood choose a media player and enjoy!!!

Answer 9

I Yahchanan (John)2:4--
HE WHO SAYS: I KNOW HIM, BUT DOES NOT KEEP HIS LAW, IS A LIAR, and the truth is not in him.

I say no.