Peter, I, & the Eye of God

"I am not." The above are the disciple Peter's words, recorded in John 18:17. With these words Peter did not deny his existence. He had not just staggered out of the local pub where, with his philosophy club-pub buddies, and by syllogism and sophistry and scotch, he had come to the conclusion that he was only a "figment of the imagination" -- or not even that, a "not!" Worse. With the words "I am not" Peter was denying he was a disciple of the Lord Jesus. After the betrayal in Gethsemane,...