THINGS ARE NOT THE WAY THEY APPEAR

If human experience has taught us anything, it is that things are not the way they appear. There was a time when people thought the earth was flat. That was understandable because that is certainly the way it appears. People also thought that the stars and the sun revolved around the earth, that the earth was the center of the universe, because that, too, is the way things appear.

Einstein's theory of relativity and the theory of quantum mechanics also revealed a world that is something very different than the way things appear. There has been no end to the human experience of discovery in every human endeavor that, where it concerns the perception of reality, things are not the way they seem.

Some 2000 thousand years ago, a man named Jesus also said the same thing, that things are not the way they seem. And he went on to demonstrate this with many signs and wonders. He revealed that, though we die and seem to no longer exist, this is not the way it really is. And though there seems to be no God in a person's everyday life, this too is not the way it really is.

So it is strange that, where it concerns atheists, they assert without any doubt that things really are the way they appear; that the material world is the only thing there is; that when “you're dead, you're dead”. Because that's the way these things appear; And that there is no God because there doesn't seem to be one.

And yet, the world of reality is not as it appears.