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John.9:23 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."
9:24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner." 9:25 He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see." 9:26 They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

Truth is so powerful it is simple and strikes fear into the hearts of those that are self-righteous! Self-righteousness comes when a person actually believes they have performed some work according to a rule, law or a group, like religion making themselves righteous by that work without sin.

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

People do this by family rules, business rules, and governmental rules it is the practice of the unrighteous. Here the Pharisee's interrogators thought they were righteous by what? The law of Moses, but where they? They could stand right before God in one way under the law of Moses, by being atone for by innocent blood of an animal, the law did not make a person righteous, it did however, point to all men being sinners.

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."{Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21}

Hebrews 7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Since Christ died atoning for sin once for all times many Christian's have fallen into the same trap as did these Pharisee's. They have been herd into religions, today some fifty-one-thousands different Christian's religions on earth. Within those religion they all have membership rules, many have become self-righteous by obeying those rules thinking by them they can judge others, like these Pharisee's were doing to this blind man and Christ Jesus. However, nations of people have been destroyed by rules of government, the power of obeying rules is so extreme in our sinful natures that ones actually can believe they are no longer a sinner so they have the right to judge others not in their group as unworthy of eternal life with God.

James 4:11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

There is not one Christian's alive that has ever made themselves righteous, not one self-made Christian's. Those thinking differently are like these Pharisee's who had deluded themselves into the grandest lie of all, which is, they had made themselves righteous by works of law under the law of Moses. Those practicing works of law, any law, are interrogates full of wicked suspicion towards everyone not obeying their rules, just like the Pharisee's were in this case. Judgment is powerful, it is a form of self-righteousness where a person sets themselves up as better, a judge of rules empowering themselves over others, as appointed by God because they read their bibles, and/or are given a position within some religion.

1 Timothy 1:9 as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

This power infects the person mind, consuming them until their minds are full of gangrene seeing evil in every word spoken hoping to trap some one is a misdeed to place them into a box so they don't have to deal with a person, as a human being. Soon they can no longer love, God or brother, they are believing the lie the spirit of error has past into them where they think themselves clean and righteous by their own evaluation of themselves, and what is that? As sick as this sounds their evaluation comes not from judging themselves against truth of Christ Jesus righteousness, but instead judging others. They live off, and thrive off of declaring others wicked just as Satan and the demons practice.

1 Timothy 6:5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.{NU omits "Withdraw yourself from such."}

They have become practiced in judging others, believing because they can fine fault in everyone they are deceived they are more righteous than their victims. This spirit of error led these Pharisee's in declaring a sinless man evil, Christ Jesus. This blindness has caused many of Christian's to destroy lives of innocent people, and their brothers, and sisters. Don't be fooled by your personal good evaluation of yourself, no! Judge yourself righteously against the Son of God, who has no flesh, who has no weakness in the flesh than and only than will you come up with the proper evaluation of all humans, we are all sinners, we all fall short of God's glory, and we are all under undeserved kindness.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Rom.12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. 12:2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. 12:3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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