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Essay On Seeing Is Believing

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Seeing is believing or believing is seeing?

Due to our beliefs we see things in a different perspective. But what is seeing? Seeing can be constructed in two different ways, one by which it refers to see with the visual eye and the other which is to understand. Seeing is all about evidence , it can be hearing, touching or any of our different senses. Some people say seeing is believing because when you see it, the possibilities exists and the knowledge will be stored in our brains, others disapprove by giving an example in which a magician can trick his audience into seeing something that is not true. For example: Even though the horizon looks like a flat line, the earth is not flat as many individuals thought it was one time. This indicates even if everyone believes something is true is doesn’t make it so. …show more content…

As a matter of fact, the definition for seeing is believing can be stated by saying that only physical or concrete evidence is convincing. Our vision can fool us. Magicians are experts in making us see what is not true. This shows us we can’t depend on what we see, even because people may receive the same information but interpret it differently or in more than one way. Most human beings have a religion, this indicates that they believe in an idea without seeing it. For example: God, even though we do not see him some religions believe in him as well as his ideas. The reasons we believe in God might be either by the fear of what will happen after we die or because we grew up with the ideals of God and its message being reinforced throughout our lives. In a way it is correct to say believing is seeing because the religion that believes in god believes in his existence without seeing

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