How do you explain the impossible?

Once, I saw a flying car.

I was in Las Vegas attending a show put on by a master magician. His finale involved a white Corvette that was driven out onto the stage. He and his beautiful assistant got into the car, started it up, and drove it off the stage and out into the air above the heads of the audience.

How do we handle it when we see the impossible?

There are really only two responses. One is that we revise our definition of 'possible.' Such thinking would be exemplified by this line of reasoning: "I used to think that cars couldn't fly. But after that experience with the white Corvette, I know I'm wrong. I saw it with my own eyes. Now I know that at least in some cases, some cars can fly."

Another response is to remain faithful to reality by labeling the event an illusion. "It certainly looked like that car was flying. However, I know that the reality is that cars cannot fly, so what I was seeing (and paying good money to see!) had to be a trick, an illusion.

Of course, in the case of magic shows the choice of which line of reasoning to use is obvious.

But what about in life? Human life presents a great many "impossibilities." Sickness, death, sin, evil, limitation, scarcity, separation, frailty, are just a few of the things that we cannot attribute to God, yet seem to be very prominent in our perception here.

The curious thing is that we apply the FIRST type of reasoning to these things! They must be real because we see and experience them. And furthermore, God must either allow them to exist or even have created them.

Insanity! A more sane approach would be to stay faithful to Reality. There is no sin in God, therefore sin is not real. There is no limitation in God, therefore limitation isn't real. God doesn't die, therefore nothing dies.

So why do we perceive the unreal?

Well, that is a whole different question!