Growth the man born blind now sees - but we are to walk by faith, not by sight

[keptandprotected]

In John 9:39, Jesus had made the man born blind to see, and told him, "For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind." (NASB). But we are told to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7).

I know we can't see Jesus (we weren't there when He walked the earth and He is in heaven now), and through His Holy Spirit we have access to God by faith, not seeing Him. Assuming there was a spiritual meaning to what Jesus said in John 9:39, because I'm sure He wasn't saying this about physical sight - what is it that the blind man saw now, spiritually speaking, that couldn't be seen when he was "blind"?

The only thing I can think of is that Paul was saying to the Corinthians that just because you can't physically see your salvation through Christ, you can still "see" in a spiritual sense through faith.

 

[Jim Parker]

In John 9:39, Jesus had made the man born blind to see, and told him, "For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind." (NASB). But we are told to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor 5:7).

You have taken two little pieces of scripture out of their contexts and tried to harmonize them,
That's a bit like trying to harmonize a composition by Bach with something by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Go back and find out who Jesus was talking to and what He was talking about then see who Paul was talking to and what he was talking about.
They are two different groups and two different subjects.
Trying to fit them together can only result in confusion.


iakov the fool
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