ContradictionsReading order 436Bible context 2 min read
Who makes people deaf and blind?
Disability is linked to God's creation and purposes in some passages and to an unclean spirit in another case.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Divine creation or purpose and a spirit's immediate action concern different patients and need not be mutually exclusive causes.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
God claims responsibility for disability and its religious purpose
And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?
Exodus 4:11
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Exodus 4
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
John 9:1-3
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:John 9