It amuses me that Christianity is ridiculed because it lacks scientific evidence of its reality. Unbelievers demand proof and proof requires something that can be repeated with the same result each time, documented evidence and eye-witness accounts that confirm it. With that evidence, you’ve got it!
But I wonder if unbelievers can live up to their own demands?
There is a place where you can see and photograph a staircase reaching to the moon.
It repeats predictably and is methodically detailed down to precise dates and hours known in advance. You can see it, the photographs are not faked and there are eye-witness accounts. They’ve got it.
It is not ‘a cleverly concocted tale’ and yet it is not real. It is simply a detailed illusion complete with evidence.
But I sometimes wonder how much evidence is really an illusion.
I also wonder if what is sometimes termed an illusion is perhaps the greatest reality of all.
John said he saw a throne in heaven, a Being sitting on it who looked like jasper and a rainbow all around (Revelation 4:2) but even some preachers are saying there is no physical heaven as described by John. They do not accept the Biblical account.
Peter’s experience was based ‘not on tales, however cleverly concocted.’ He said, ‘there came to him from the sublime Presence a voice which said: ‘This is my Son, my Beloved, on whom my favour rests.’ We ourselves heard this voice,’ 2nd Peter 1:16,17. Yet millions do not accept the eye-witness, documented, account of sound and vision.
Paul summed it up rather neatly when he said ‘how vast are the resources of his power open to us who have faith,’ Ephesians 1:19.
He had more than an observed stairway to the moon complete with photographs. He saw past the evidence because what ‘is seen is transient, but what is unseen is eternal,’ 2nd Corinthians 4:18. And he said the same power is open to us.
God gave us the power of faith, so that we live this “present mortal life by faith in the Son of God,” (Galatians 2:20).
It is better than any photograph.
Got it?
(References: Revised English Bible)
Elizabeth Price