Should a christian rely on logic to make decisions? I am a very logical person. I love to build arguments using clear logic, and it drives me nuts to hear someone arguing a point with lousy logic. This is a question that I have been pondering lately. What place should logic have in my decision making and in determining my understanding of truth?
Of course, I will attempt to answer this question logically.
    Actually I am not really attempting to answer the question, but to ask it.
As a Christian I believe that we are to be filled with God's Holy Spirit. He is to be our guide in everything. "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth. . ." (John 16:13). So our guide should be the Holy Spirit. Wouldn't the Holy Spirit guide us to make logical decisions? Well, I guess that is the problem. Logic is only as good as it's understanding of reality. An argument may be impeccable logically, but if it is built on a faulty premise, then the conclusion may be dead wrong. Our human logic is bound to be deficient because now we only "see in a mirror dimly." "Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have also been fully known."(1Cor. 13:12)
    So when it comes down to it, how does this affect me. Let me give a real example. Crissy and I are trying to decide where God is leading in our lives. We would like to start a "branch Sabbath school" and we want to know if and how God would have us do this. I can make a "good" decision based on logic using what I know about the people that would be involved and what the Bible says about fellowship and worship etc. But for some reason I feel that this is insufficient. God doesn't think like us. He asks people to do things that seem illogical.