Will You Follow the Evidence?

For centuries people believed that Aristotle was correct when he said that the heavier an object, the faster it would fall to earth. Aristotle was regarded as the greatest thinker of all time, and surely he was not wrong.

Anyone could have easily taken two objects, one heavy and one light, and dropped them from a great height and see if the heavier object landed first. But no one conducted this experiment until nearly 2,000 years after Aristotle’s death.
In 1589, Galileo summoned the most educated professors to the base of the Tower of Pisa. From the top of the tower, Galileo pushed off a 10 pound and a 1 pound weight. Both of the objects landed at the same instant. The power of belief was so strong, however, that the professors denied their own eyesight. They continued to say that Aristotle was right.
In matters of your personal faith, do you follow the evidence of Scripture or do you blindly accept what you have always been taught? Do you simply follow the religious traditions of what the church has always done? Do you blindly accept what preachers and church leaders of the past proclaimed? Or are you willing to examine the evidence and go wherever it takes you? As Christians, we must be willing to reexamine our beliefs and make sure they pass the test of Scriptural evidence. “Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves!” (2 Cor. 13:5).