THE GOSPEL IN LOGIC — BELIEVING BEYOND WHAT THE EYES CAN SEE
One of the most common reasons people give for not believing in God sounds very simple—“I don’t believe in anything I cannot see.”
At first glance, that feels sensible, practical, even scientific. But when we slow down and think carefully—without slogans, without sermons, without pressure—we discover that this idea does not actually come from science or logic at all.
In fact, it quietly contradicts both.
Science itself is built on realities that cannot be seen with the naked eye. Gravity has never been photographed, yet every step we take assumes it is real.
No one has ever seen a magnetic field, but we trust it every time a compass points north.
Radio waves fill the room you are sitting in right now—music, voices, data—passing through walls and bodies unseen. We do not see them, yet we build entire civilizations around their presence.
Even more personally, we live daily by faith in invisible things. You cannot see your thoughts, yet you trust that you are thinking. You cannot see love, but you know when it has changed your life. You cannot see justice, meaning, or moral obligation, yet we appeal to them constantly—especially when we believe something is wrong.
To say, “I only believe what I can see,” would require abandoning reason, relationships, science, and even the idea that truth exists at all.
The irony is this: the statement itself is not visible. You cannot see the belief “I only believe what I can see.” It is a philosophical claim—an invisible conviction used to deny invisible realities. That alone shows the problem.
The Bible speaks plainly and without embarrassment about this. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Notice what it does not say. It does not say faith is wishful thinking. It does not say faith ignores evidence. It says faith deals with evidence of a different kind—real, substantial, but not always visible.
Scripture also reminds us that the invisible does not mean the unreal. “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made” (Romans 1:20). In other words, we do not see God the way we see a tree—but we see His fingerprints everywhere: order, reason, beauty, conscience, life itself.
The Christian claim is not that belief in God is anti-science. It is that science, by its very nature, points beyond itself. Science can tell us how things work—but it cannot tell us why anything exists at all. It can describe the universe, but it cannot explain why there is something instead of nothing, or why human beings hunger for meaning, truth, and love in a world that supposedly does not owe us any of those things.
Belief in God is not a rejection of logic; it is the recognition that logic itself rests on unseen foundations. The Christian faith does not ask us to close our eyes—it asks us to open them wider. To admit that reality is larger than what we can hold, measure, or photograph.
And in the end, the gospel tells us something even more remarkable: the unseen God made Himself seen. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14). Christianity does not rest on an abstract idea alone—it rests on a historical Person, Jesus Christ, who lived, loved, suffered, died, and rose again in time and space.
We do not believe because we can see everything. We believe because we see enough—and because truth, like love, has never required visibility to be real.
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Lord Jesus, open our eyes to see beyond the surface of things—to trust truth, love, and You, even when sight is limited. Teach us that faith is not blindness, but deeper vision. Amen.
BDD
