Seeing and Perceiving
I was born with a condition called congenital cataracts. It is a disease of the eyes where a section of the eye becomes blurry and nothing can be clear in that section. I had surgery in 2002 that corrected this issue. If you looked into my eyes on the outside, my eyes looked normal, but I was half blind. There is a big difference between seeing and perceiving . If there was a commotion in the street, I would always ask my family: “ What’s happening? ” They knew that I still couldn’t see, even if we were all looking in the same direction, so they would describe to me what they saw, so I can perceive and understand what’s going on. Seeing is not always perceiving . Did Adam and Eve see and know the importance of obeying God? We know that they eventually tasted the forbidden fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden. They saw it, but they did not perceive that by not obeying God, they would come to know the good by the loss of it, and they would come to know evil by the sen...