This post was to initially be about John chapter 10:24-39 and it still will be but as I typed the title it occurred to me just how true that is of everyone and just how unwilling everyone is to have their opinions shaped by what they actually see. This applies not only religiously but to all observations in all relationships. The most glaring of these are political, we see the “works” of our representatives (and in many cases the non-work) and rather than believing what they actually have done we choose to believe their ever flapping gums when they tell us what they are going to do. Compare this with the passage below. Jesus has been going around giving sight to the blind, feeding thousands, causing the lame to walk, etc. and the Jews ask him if He is the Christ to which He answers, yes (who else could perform such miracles beside the Son of God?), and the Jews reaction is...