The disciples of Moses would not believe that a miracle had happened. They questioned the identity of the man. They looked for fraud. For they had a ruling.
Those who acknowledged Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah were to be excommunicated: cast out of the synagogue. Kindly note that Jesus was alive.
This led to a culture of fear. No one dared contradict the Pharisee virtue police. If you challenged them, you were deemed to be dank and filthy and to be cast away.
The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.) Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.” The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.” He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
(John 9:18-41 ESV)
Our ideologies make us blind. It is better to trust in our own lying eyes that in a model of society. The current passions and political issues will fade, for the elite — having ensured the natives don’t breed — will bring in a more amenable population, who think in a collective.
As if that will work. It won’t. The revolt is coming, for the peasants don’t like being murdered, seeing their children sexually violated, and their businesses robbed.
So to the immigrants I say this: get a beer mate: have some bacon. We don’t do Sharia here. Muhammad will be relentlessly mocked. And find Christ.
Yes, the elite and ideologues will cast you out. But they won’t give you food or drink either.
For if you claim to virtue signal when evil, your guilt will remain.
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