>>That is every man until they are changed by God to be born again. Then they are no longer blind. Then they see.
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>You obviously do not know the tale of the Blindmen and the Elephant. You touch only a portion of the truth and mistake it for the truth. That is not seeing, that is blinding yourself to everything else for the comfort (and arrogant smugness) of thinking you have all the answers. A truly wise man has more questions than answers and has the humility to understand just how ignorant one can be.

The last sentence is very true. Perhaps an enlightened man has no questions or answers ...


>>That passage means men must come to Jesus in the same way little children believe what you tell them -- they just accept it on faith.
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>I do think you believe what you have been told, just as a little child does. That is sad. A little child will continue to grow and experience, not blinded by thinking the know everything.
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>The passage actually means that a childlike sense of wonder and discovery is a state of grace. A certainty that no longer discovers and ceases to question is the fall from grace.

A child has no ego, no sense of self, no "I". This is what I think to be as a child means in this passage.


>You have ceased to wonder and ceased to question and are convinced that the customs of your tribe are the laws of nature. Before being born again your education must have been very limited and your world very small or you could not find this comforting.
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>Do not confuse your pride and ego with the voice of god.

The interpretation of experience through one's prior conditioning - how to free oneself from the prison of the known.