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(Acts 16:16–34; John 9:1–38) The simplicity of faith argues with crafty unbelief. Faith, having come to the blind man who received his sight, enlightened his intelligent eyes, and he clearly sees the truth. Look how logical everything is with him. They ask him: what can you say about Him, who gave sight? “This is a prophet” (John 9:17), he answered, that is, a messenger of God, endowed with miraculous power. An undeniably correct conclusion! But bookish education does not want to see this loyalty and seeks to evade its consequences. And since this did not succeed, she turns to unbookish simplicity with her suggestion: “give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner” (John 9:24). The simplicity of faith does not know how to connect these concepts - sinfulness and miracles, and expresses this openly: “Whether He is a sinner, I don’t know; one thing I know, that I was blind, but now I see” (John 9:25). What can be said against such ignorance? But the logic of unbelievers is stubborn, and despite all the evidence, they are not ashamed to claim that they do not know where the one who opened the eyes of the blind man came from. “This is amazing,” the sound logic of faith tells them, “that you don’t know where He comes from, but He opened my eyes. But we know that God does not listen to sinners; but whoever honors God and does His will listens to him. Since the beginning of time it has not been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. If He had not been from God, He could not have done anything” (John 9:30-33). It would seem that after this there was nothing left to do but bow before the power of such a conclusion. But book learning cannot tolerate the sound logic of faith and has driven it out... Go now, prove the truth of faith to those whose minds have been corrupted by persistence in unbelief. Unbelievers of all times are people of the same breed. You might be interested in: