How do you understand anything without logic? Sounds like blind faith to me.
The question is; how do you understand anything with logic???
Logic is nothing more than a guess...Logic is for people who don't know the answer to the question...
And what makes one person's logic superior to the person whose logic disagrees with his logic??? The answer of course is in the final equation...If the logic can prove itself in the end...
And when the logical episode is over with, knowledge is gained, experience is gained, and from that point on, logic falls to the bottom of the list...Logic never supercedes knowledge and experience...
I know of no one who has a good sense of logic in every area...Some are good with mechanics, some with math...Some with electronics...Logic however, does not apply to the scriptures...The only biblical logic is called wisdom...And the only Godly wisdom we get comes from God...According to God...
Try this one out...Many of the scriptures that Protestants relate to, to prove their position, are called a metaphor by you guys...That means it doesn't mean what it says...It means something else...But yet, in most cases, you have no clue as to what the metaphor means...That means that God wrote a lot of scripture that is meaningless and not applicable to anything...So where's the logic in that???
You pointed to some verses, Matt. 25 and more that show works are definitely required for salvation...Excellent...I agree with you 100%
But then we get to Romans, Galatians, Ephesians where it's is conclusive that works of any kind are forbidden for salvation...Of course you guys deny this to keep in line with your believing only what Jesus said...Regardless, the scriptures tell us that any kind of works are counted as a debt...
Logic would seem to tell anyone that there's a contradiction there...
And then James tells us that we are justified by works when Roman tells us absolutely no way...
Would seem even a minute amount of logic would tell someone there's a problem there...
But nope, one of 'em's got to be a metaphor...Don't know what it means but what ever it means, it's not what it says...
So I don't buy into man's logic that you claim is a gift from God...Not when your logic seems to be so, illogical...