What are the differences between Jesus and Santa Claus?
John 9:1-39
This passage says as much about John’s religious community, decades after the ascension of Jesus, as it does about Jesus and his actions. In Jesus’ and even St Paul’s time, Jewish people weren’t excommunicated as the threat describes in this scene. But by Paul’s time there was great division between Jewish people and Christians, the latter were actively discouraged from Synagogue worship with the introduction of a prayer that essentially renounced Jesus. This account also describes the experiences of people wanting to become Christians. How does this account metaphorically relate physical ill-health to spiritual ill-health? |