Having pondered this verse years ago, I recently ran across it again, and thought I would toss it out there for some you deep thinkers:
Most are familiar with the man who was born blind, whom Jesus healed by anointing his eyes with a salve of spit and dirt, telling him to wash in the pool of Siloam. But, the disciples asked Jesus a very strange question concerning the reason for the man's condition:
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? (Mark 9:2)
We could understand the belief that the parents were punished for some sin by having a child born blind, but how could that affliction be the result of something the child did before he was even born?
Most are familiar with the man who was born blind, whom Jesus healed by anointing his eyes with a salve of spit and dirt, telling him to wash in the pool of Siloam. But, the disciples asked Jesus a very strange question concerning the reason for the man's condition:
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? (Mark 9:2)
We could understand the belief that the parents were punished for some sin by having a child born blind, but how could that affliction be the result of something the child did before he was even born?