Have you ever heard this one: ‘I won’t believe in something I cannot see’?

If the requirement for something being real is the fact that you can see it then:

1. You will never be consistent. You believe in air (and lots of other things you cannot see). Your eyesight is actually very selective.

2. You have made yourself into a god. You are all seeing and therefore all knowing. Reality is your eyesight and your eyesight is reality.

3. You have made the universe very small – much of it non-existent. You really believe that if a tree falls down in a forest, and no one is present to hear it, it doesn’t make a sound.

In short then, you are an inconsistent idolator who has made yourself very big and the universe very small.

• Romans 8:24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

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