{"id":14366,"date":"2023-11-19T00:28:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=14366"},"modified":"2023-11-19T00:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T00:28:25","slug":"john-934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/14366\/john-934\/","title":{"rendered":"John 9:34"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">I don\u2019t understand why the priests made this statement\u00a0(Jn. 9:34):\u00a0&#8220;They answered and said to him\u00a0[the healed blind man], \u201cYou were altogether born in sin, and you are teaching us?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Hi Wendell,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Those priests felt that the healed blind man was a lower creature and, therefore, unworthy and unable to teach them anything, especially about God.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>It was commonly held by the Gentiles of the time that the rich and\/or powerful were what amounts to a different species, superior to those of the lower classes.\u00a0 The Greeks and Romans even invented fantastic myths about their great men, such as The Aeneid, to show that those\u00a0people were descendent\u00a0from the gods, with divine blood running in their veins.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>The priests would not have gone that far, but they were clearly influenced by the spirit of their age to consider lower classes as inferior to them.\u00a0\u00a0I recall that\u00a0in John 12,\u00a0the\u00a0leaders of Israel\u00a0even\u00a0considered those in Israel who were not skilled in the law to be cursed by God.\u00a0 That would mean, of course, that they were the blessed ones,\u00a0God&#8217;s favorites, if you will.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Pride is a sneaky thing.\u00a0 It will even use knowledge of the Scriptures to puff men up if they do not stay low at the Master&#8217;s feet.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Thank you for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, I don\u2019t understand why the priests made this statement\u00a0(Jn. 9:34):\u00a0&#8220;They answered and said to him\u00a0[the healed blind man], \u201cYou were altogether born in sin, and you are teaching us?\u201d\u00a0 Wendell ========= Hi Wendell, Those priests felt that the healed blind man was a lower creature and, therefore, unworthy and unable to teach them anything, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}