God is not an object that can be put under the microscope of reason and “proved” like a material thing. God, by definition, would not be one being among other beings, beneath human analysis. Rather, God is the reality by which reason, truth, and intelligibility are possible in the first place.
My point is that reason is something you simply find yourself possessing and trusting. You do not prove reason before using it; you use reason before you can prove anything. So reason is given. But then the question becomes: what grounds that given-ness? Reason cannot finally justify itself without circularity. So its authority must rest in something beyond finite human reason. For me, that ground is God.
If you don’t think God is the ground of reason and truth, that’s fine, but then what is?
paxchristi
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