We are still in our series about the seven signs of Jesus in the Gospel of John, and today was about John 9 and the man born blind. It is curious at the end, and the pastor admitted that what Jesus said is a little puzzling, though he offered an explanation. 41 "Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains."
Unlearning is harder than learning. The Pharisees were in worse shape because they thought they knew it all, and even when confronted with the amazing refused to reconsider their priors. We saw the same thing about the healing on the Sabbath. But...but...but it's the Sabbath, Jesus! Don't you know the rules? Aslan would say that he knew the Deep Magic before the dawn of time.
Political liberals and conservatives in the church both accuse each other of refusing to reconsider their priors for cultural and tribal reasons. Reconsidering my priors is one of the things I reliably bring. For me, the difficulty might be changing my mind a third time, believing that I have heard it all. I suppose it's turtles all the way down.
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