Do you believe that you have to see it to believe it, or, do you have to believe it before you can see it?
I have always been a see it to believe it type of person. That is why I have always had a hard time with religion, and this is the reason why I still question my faith a lot today. But then I think of things like magic. Not the supernatural kind, but the magician kind. When a magician is doing a trick, and they are a good magician, you don't see how they pull off the trick. Yet I still believe what he is showing me happened (Note: I am wise enough to know that magic is nothing but illusions made to trick our brains into believing what the magician wants us to believe, but my brain still believes it because it sees it). So if I understand and have faith in that a magician is showing me an illusion, thus allowing me to believe it, why can't I have faith and believe other things I don't see? Things like: the love my family and friends have for me, the love I have for my family and friends, sound waves when I'm listening to music, the salty taste I get when at the beach, etc.
Maybe instead of always having to use my sense of sight to believe things, I can use my other senses. It's like a line from one of my favorite books, A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks, explains that we don't have to see the wind to believe that the wind is real. We can see the affects of the wind and we can feel the wind, but we don't actually see it. And we all know that wind is a real thing. Maybe instead of sight, I can believe things based on how they feel to me, smell, or taste. Or if I have to see it, maybe then seeing the affects around me is enough to believe. The truth is, we all have to believe in something. Why does that me we have to see it for it to be true?
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