Is belief in God logical? I would say yes, it is.
I don't believe that human logic and faith conflict, instead the problem occurs where one's worldview dictates the logic or when one puts God in a box, which they can't do, because God by definition cannot fit into the box of human thinking. I was born and raised in a Christian household. I came to Christ in 2002 in Peru and did not know really anything about Him and did not even ask question. A few years after, I drifted away from God despite going to a Christian after-school club. It was not really until I believe the end of my high school years going maybe into my community college years or starting in those community college years when I was given over to pornographic addiction and stuff like that, that one day and other days after it, I felt an emptiness that I could not explain, I cried out to Jesus to rescue me. Why did I do that? Honestly, I could not answer that question, the only way I could explain it was that God was calling me, the prodigal son, back to Him. Since then while I still struggle with that addiction, I continue to fight it both in my mind and in my acts on the Internet.
Now, when it comes to books I recommend to logically defend the Christian faith, these are the people I recommend:
Ravi Zacharias, a former Hindu who almost died after attempting to commit suicide with some drugs, and then accepted Christ into this life and became an apologist.
Lee Strobel, a former atheist who looking through history, science, etc and also seeing the changes that occurred to his wife when she became a Christian, accepted Him as his Savior and Lord. I recommend his book The Case for Christ and the movie based on it.
P.S. If you are interesting in intelligent design and what it pretty much is I recommend Expelled, a movie narrated by Ben Stein quite informative and hopefully understandable by many about what intelligent design, the principles, and evidence behind the idea. Also, it talks about the science teacher and scientists who have been blacklisted for not believing in evolution and believing intelligent design. Those scientiftc organizations deny it has happened or say it was for other reasons, but they are lying and their statements are not. Michael Behe, I also believe wrote a book about it and I believe is the founder, though the idea has been around for a long just not to the scope that it is now with all the advances of technology in science nowadays.
Josh McDowell, I have not read his stuff but what I have heard is quite interesting and worth pondering, I believe he wrote More Than A Carpenter if I am not mistaken.
This is part of apologetics, the pre-evangelism, if you will of the Christian faith. Some people need it to get a foundation of Christian thinking and worldview, but not everyone is strong in it, I am not, but I know some stuff. Of course, when it comes to becoming Christian there are many who believe in Jesus Christ without going that deep. Also the faith of a Christian is not just a belief in God, as one person said it, even Satan knows that God exists and does not deny the existence of God. Belief for the Christian is coupled with other things such as slowly or quickly recanting positions that fly against what the Bible says, self-examining one's life realizing what weaknesses one has and giving them to God to continue to work on, praying for people to come to Christ, be saved, etc, and also caring about those who are poor, helpless, etc. Though some people do have a problem about that a caring aspect or question how it is done, should the individuals take responsibility to care for others, should the government mandate that people care for others, or should the government care for others and leave the individuals to live lives of leisure and other stuff. That is a tough question, but I digress. In conclusion, I believe that belief in God is logical but only if one realizes that God does not run on human logic, decision making, etc also one does not always understand why God acted in a way that he did, I don't always understand it either, I just take it my faith.
Why he spares some but not others. Heals some people from sicknesses but not others. I don't know all the answers but I can point to a book that is not just another piece of literature but is the word of God. Full of poetry, allegory, metaphors, similes, symbols, etc.
Full of characters that many times one can relate to, many of the characters (except Jesus) are flawed (i.e. Abraham, David, Solomon, etc) in usually many ways than just one. Jonah was prejudiced and did not want to follow God's command to tell Nineveh about God's judgment on them, David committed adultery and had lust issues, Noah got drunk after planting a vineyard after the Flood happened, and there are still many other stories.
I encourage you besides asking questions to look at the Bible itself look at passages, the advice contained, the remedy given, etc, you might be surprised by what you see and it may just rock your misconceptions, preconceptions, etc about who God is, what He is like, etc. I have read the Bible many times first using the NIV and then the Message, a paraphrase version of the Bible, through that and rereading the Bible I have noticed things I did not realize or see before. For example, I have seen things that one can use against the position that the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are not same or are different. The more I have been reading, the more I see how ridiculous that position is but I will not make fun of those who have it that would not be right.
So I leave a question for you, what is the barrier that you believe is causing you to wonder if belief in God is really logical? Is it just based on human logic, that you believe there lies the problem or is it something deeper. Is it that you do not want to have faith in someone that you don't always understand or don't understand? Is it pride, that you believe that humans are masters of the universe or stuff like that and we are left to our own devices? For awhile, even the Catholic church believed that the earth was the center of the universe but Galileo, Copernicus, etc turned that on its head. Or the belief for a time that humans had about the earth being flat that they believed they could support using the Bible. That belief would not have existed if someone had read Isaiah 40:22
Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Sorry for my rambling. Those are my thoughts, my worldviews, what I have learned, etc.
