You do not exist.

Sin is not real.
Disease is not real.
Death is not real.

God is perfect. God's creation is perfect. Therefore, anything that contradicts perfection cannot ultimately be real.

This was the world I was given as a child.

But I was real.

I got sick. I felt pain. I was afraid. I became angry. I was confused. My body reacted to things my mind could not yet understand.

And when my experience conflicted with what I was taught to believe, the answer was often the same