TruthLover
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Yes interesting point. Jehovah gives wisdom to those seeking it. So in that sense ones are blinded because they've not sought after truth. Jehovah can open their eyes as he is the source of truth, but not if they want to keep their eyes shut. So a person has to be wanting to see and Jehovah will open their eyes. Otherwise Jehovah keeps them in dark, blinded.This is exactly what I meant by our free will allowing us to make bad decisions. Let me put it another way. Because Jehovah created us with free will, that means we can make the right decision or the wrong one. When we make the wrong decision, it is because of our free will that we are able to do that! So in that sense Jehovah has "blinded" someone because he does not interfere with their free will, as I like to put it, "your right to be wrong." Personally I think this is the best way to understand this, with what we know about Jehovah. Because of our free will he does not force anything on us, so he does not "blind" someone in a literal sense, that would belie our free will.
Isaiah 6:10 speaks of Jehovah making their heart unreceptive: "Make the heart of this people unreceptive, make their ears unresponsive, and paste their eyes together, so that they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears, so that their heart may not understand and they may not turn back and be healed."
But Matthew 13:15 explains that it was their own doing, in that their heart had grown unreceptive and have shut their eyes: "For the heart of this people has grown unreceptive, and with their ears they have heard without response, and they have shut their eyes, so that they might never see with their eyes and hear with their ears and get the sense of it with their hearts and turn back and I heal them."
It's so strange having witnessed it. When I've spoke to some about how wrong this is, going beyond what is written, that we shouldn't be trusting man, it really does seem as if it's gone over their head, they've heard it but it doesn't sink in. There's been a few instances now that's made me realize this.