Take off those green glasses

By Lois Sauer Degler

Do you know the story of the Wizard of Oz? Dorothy and her friends go to the Emerald City to get help from the wizard. Before they get there, they have to put on green glasses. When they enter the city, everything looks emerald-green. It isn't until much later in their adventures that Dorothy and the others take off their glasses and see the city as it really is. Of course, when they do that, they discover it isn't green. The glasses had just made everything look green. The glasses created an illusion, which is something that seems to be but isn't.

The Wizard of Oz is a good story. It's funny to think of how all the characters have been fooled. In real life, though, you don't want to be tricked into believing something that's not true. But how can you be sure what is true and what isn't?

Well, the Bible can help us. In Genesis, the first book of the Bible, there are two different accounts of how God created man. In the first, God makes man—all of us—in His image and likeness. That means that God, who is perfect Spirit, makes us perfect and spiritual, like Himself. In the second story, God makes a man, Adam, out of dust, and then uses one of his bones to make a woman, whom Adam names Eve.

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