Your faith has saved and healed you. In that instant he recovered his sight and followed Jesus down the road.
Jesus healed a blind man named Bartimaeus in Jericho. It was a miracle. Also, the fact that he recognized Jesus as soon as he recovered his sight and acted like a
normal person while following Jesus down the road, was beyond a miracle.
Modern medical science has advanced to the point where even the blind can have normal vision through surgery. However, the advanced technology cannot make them instantly adapt to the changes in the numerous visionary information coming through the eyes. A lot of visual experience and cognitive education are needed before the vision, which did not exist, can be accepted as one of the sensory organs.
"Christianity is an encounter with God"
Jesus not only opened Bartimaeus's physical eyes, but he also restored the awareness through sight, that is, the eyes of the soul. Even normal people may be insensitive to the environment surrounding them. They have eyes to see but do not see properly, and ears to hear but do not hear properly. Christianity is not a religion, but it is an encounter with God (Dietrich von Hoeffer), and a new life that accepts that Jesus is the Christ.
Therefore, we must use all the senses of our body and soul to get to know Jesus. It is necessary to train the sense of recognizing God, not the sense of recognizing only the objects of the simple phenomenal world.
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