Church Membership

You say, "How could God's people at this time be so blind? So spiritually obtuse?" Answer: Part and parcel of their theology was the belief that God helped those who helped themselves. This is a belief that has plagued God's people throughout Redemptive History. We see it in the working knowledge of the disciples, "And as He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?'" (John 9:1-2). Clearly if someone suffers it is because of their or their parent's sin. That is the world and so the thinking in which the majority of God's people lived throughout Redemptive History.