To me, life is like we are all watching the same game, but each from different seats all around the stadium.
We each can only see what we see from where we're sitting. Sometimes our view of the action is great, sometimes not so great.
In this, we are watching the same game, but having a different game experience, you know I mean?
From where you're sitting, that's the game and plays you see. That's your game experience. I'd have to be a fool to tell you that you don't see what you see, especially if I'm not sitting and seeing the game from there, too.
And, since you're not sitting where I'm sitting, you'd have to be a fool to tell me I'm not seeing what I'm seeing.
As it is, even the refs on the field get it wrong sometimes.
To have the total picture, the full, complete game experience, we would have to sit in every seat in the stadium. Only then, would we have seen it from all perspectives in the stadium.
Most of us never even think to see the game from another point of view. Most like the view they've always had and they like arguing about it at the bar after the game, online in forums and at work the next day. They can't shift their perspective and don't want to.
I was always jealous of families who passed their season tickets down generation after generation, so I didn't grow up thinking this way. But now I'm glad I didn't inherit the family's season tickets.
I like moving around the stadium and seeing the game from different perspectives.
As long as I'm respectful, people don't seem to mind me sitting with them and often they will show me things I couldn't see in the old family section and row.
I've learned a deeper understanding and appreciation for the game this way and now I better understand why some views are better than others, depending on the play and time on the clock.
Interesting take on perspective. Does it really deal with the clear warnings in Scripture against the magic arts (however disguised)? I’d say no, not by a long shot. I counter that it has nothing to do with how I “see things”, since—unlike your creative reply—the Word does not equivocate on this issue.
Following Christ is NOT a spectator sport.
We are engaged in spiritual warfare, which does NOT include communicating with the spirits of dead people, which are actually demons.