On the seen and unseen, the eternal and transient, we have lingers too long in the kindergarten of smooth and sometimes silly conclusions.  Paul’s saying about visible and invisible things has been turned into absurd doctrine.

“While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:18, KJVA)

It is not an expression of absolute truth to assign eternity to unseen things, and finiteness to visible things.   Many things that are not seen perish.  Like the fingers and ears we see, the human heart, though unseen, perishes with the body.  In sober reflection of the things we all have to encounter, we acknowledge that there are words unspoken, words spoken, hopes cherished, hopes fulfilled, food eaten and nutrients never seen.  We are assured that the heavens (even the countless galaxies) themselves will be rolled up like a scroll.  The invisibility of racist policy all over the globe does not mean that racism is eternal. We should not let the spillover from the hidden word of God seduce us into the Pharisee urge to see and show