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The Twist family studies the Gospel of John
Wayne:
The disciples asked whose sin caused the man to be blind, his own sin or his parents' sin. ::)
Jesus responded that several things can lead to congenital blindness including genetics, trachoma, poor nutrition, and staring at the sun.
Just kidding. He said "neither the parents nor the child sinned." In other words, cut it out with all this blaming the victim business. Just help him.
Wayne:
But of course Jesus makes the classic Jesus mistake of doing this when he should be at church. ::)
I love verse 16: So some of the Pharisees said, 'This man is not from God, because he does not keep the sabbath.'
:laugh: :laugh: I mean come on now, were the authorities really so superstitious and hard-hearted that they would criticize somebody for breaking the Sabbath by making a blind man see?!? :laugh:
That seems pretty ridiculous. But maybe that's how it happened ... ::)
Artiste:
Interesting thread you created wdj!
Thanks!
Hugs!
Wayne:
Thanks Artiste! Glad you're enjoying it ... join in the conversation any time!
I was thinking about the Pharisees - who were they? What did they stand for? What power did they have?
Wikipedia says
"The word Pharisees comes from the Hebrew פרושים prushim from פרוש parush, meaning "separated", that is, one who is separated for a life of purity[1]. The Pharisees were, depending on the time, a political party, a social movement, and a school of thought among Jews that flourished during the Second Temple Era (536 BCE–70 CE). After the destruction of the Second Temple, the Pharisaic sect was re-established as Rabbinic Judaism — which ultimately produced normative, traditional Judaism"
To characterize the the Pharisees across such a long period of time seems pretty complicated - like trying to sum up the Democratic party from Thomas Jefferson through the Civil War through today. Sometimes they were probably the good guys and sometimes the bad.
Maybe like all of us they were usually trying to do what was right but sometimes missed the mark. ;)
Wayne:
The narrator of the gospel of John presents them as the bad guys.
As we will learn in the final chapter of this gospel, it is being narrated by the man whom Jesus loved.
So he is bound to have some pretty strong feelings about the situation. :-\
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