But he said to him, "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead."
Luke 16:31
After Yuri Gagarin became the 1st man in space, he parachuted into the Russian countryside. A farm woman spotted the orange-clad cosmonaut, still wearing his helmet & dragging two parachutes. "Can it be you have come from outer space?" she asked in surprise. "As a matter of fact, I have," he said.
Soviet leaders sadly turned the historic flight into antireligious propaganda. "Gagarin went onto space, but he didn't see any god there," their premier declared. (Gagarin himself never said such a thing.) As C. S. Lewis observed, "Those who do not find God on earth are unlikely to find Him in space."
Oswald Chambers wrote, "Seeing is believing. We interpret what we see in the light of what we believe."
