The Answer Is Very Simple
Now here is the second set.
As you can quickly see from comparing the two sets of cards, it doesn’t make any difference which card you choose from the first set, because none of those six cards is in the second set. But the cards are very similar, and since the PowerPoint program moves quickly, unless you are a careful observer, you simply assume that what you’re being told is true, and you end up being fooled.
We live in a world where people often try to fool us, and sometimes they succeed. If it is something like this card trick, all we may suffer is feeling foolish. But people can lose their life’s savings through a smooth talking “investment advisor,” and they can lose their health through a “quack,” some of whom have medical degrees. Clever people can be very effective in separating others from their money.
Of all the cons in the world, nothing is worse than a religious deceiver, and the ministry is all too rife with such con artists. But there is one thing that is completely trustworthy: “the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture.” The Bereans were commended because they checked out what they were being taught by testing it with the Bible, even though their teacher was none other than the Apostle Paul himself. “Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.” (Acts 17:11.)