"I truly came to a place that is the greatest blessing," he said, according to Yahoo! News. "Lord, if you need my eyes, they're yours. They were yours the whole time anyway. Thank you for letting me see as long as I have. That's a blessing." Glenn Beck
Why would an omnipotent, omnipresent, all knowing God "need" to make someone blind. This just shows the craziness of the craziness of ascribing thoughts, actions and intentions to an invisible and silent deity. Glenn Beck is going blind due to a hereditary defect. This is the common view from the 4,000 year old book of Job that everything good comes from god and everything bad comes from god and evertthing both good and bad has a divine purpose.
In John 9: 1-41 In this story Jesus and the disciples pass by a blind man. The disciples asked who sinned??? Him or his parents?? Jesus said he was blind in order that the "works of god would be made manifest in him". In other words God had made the man blind so that Jesus could heal him and prove that he was the son of god. So in otherwords...God had made him blind so that God could prove he was God and heal him.
Fastforward 2,000 years and filter a hereditary disease through this biblical lens and you have a common prevailing religious view that god is to blame. Ancient man did not know all the causes of blindness, modern man does, and yet god is invoked when there is no proof he is even involved. DNA and genetics are involved in Glenn Beck's blindness. Why spiritualize it beyond that? Modern man needs to progress beyond the book of Job and look for a "scientific" and "medical" solution. God quit healing people of blindness 2,000 years ago, but modern medicine has only just begun.
