That up is blind! is blind!

That up is blind!

Love is blind!

Justice is blind!

Those blinds are closed. Dare-devil is blind. Those blinds are closed.

Dair devil is blind. Blind can just mean a lot of different things

and one of the things that happens when you get a really

metaphor dependent passage in the Bible is that whichever one of those we just immediately

happened to latch on to when we read it whatever triggers because of the burrito we had earlier in the day or an experience

we had yesterday that can become the thing that

locks us into this sort of calcified interpretation of that passage when in fact

it may be trying to conjure something quite different and it might have conjured something

quite different for the original audience.

So what we're doing yesterday and today is doing a bit of a deep dive into the concept of

blindness and other limiting factors in the use of people's five senses

throughout the Bible to try to understand what the metaphor meant, what it would have meant to

the original audience when they saw Jesus healing a couple of blind guys who were able to

rightly identify who he is in Matthew Chapter 9, which went like this.

When he had gone indoors, the blind man came to him and he asked them,

do you believe that I'm able to do this? Yes, Lord, they replied.

Then he touched their eyes and said, according to your faith, it will be done to you.

And then in the next passage, there's a demon-possessed guy who couldn't talk.

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