Day 297 (John 9-10) - Year 8
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Day 297 (John 9-10) - Year 8

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 24, 20268 min
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It's normal to adopt cultural beliefs as our own and assume they're true, so the

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When they meet a blind man, the disciples ask, who's to blame for this man's blindness?

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Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for The Bible Recap. In ancient Near Eastern culture, lots of people associated sickness and physical disability with sin. And it's true that occasionally there can be a link, like with the demonic, but in many

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of the healing cases we've seen there's been no mention of sin at all. Scripture doesn't lay out a direct, consistent cause-and-effect relationship. It's normal to adopt cultural beliefs as our own and assume they're true, so the cultural mindset of sickness being sin-adjacent has impacted even Jesus' disciples.

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When they meet a blind man, the disciples ask, who's to blame for this man's blindness? Is he being punished for his own sin or for his parents' sin? And Jesus says, guess again, he's blind because this situation is going to be used to glorify God.

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