steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
Reading between the lines Jesus was saying most people are ignorant and stupid. They hear words but can not understand meaning. The only way to communicate with them is through simple moral stories, IOW parables. As were Aesop's Fables.
It doesn't tke a PHD to understand it. Instead of a lightly explanation if we are confident in an outcoe we might call it a 'slam dunk'.
In those days literacy meant functional literacy. You could read signs and write messages and the like. Reading a book or any writing and being able to comprehend meaning was for the educated few.
The apostles were probably not the brightest bulbs in Judea.
For an analogy look at the tribal ares in Pakisatn or the Taliban in Afghanistan. Kids learn to memorize and recite the Koran with little understanding.
It doesn't tke a PHD to understand it. Instead of a lightly explanation if we are confident in an outcoe we might call it a 'slam dunk'.
In those days literacy meant functional literacy. You could read signs and write messages and the like. Reading a book or any writing and being able to comprehend meaning was for the educated few.
The apostles were probably not the brightest bulbs in Judea.
For an analogy look at the tribal ares in Pakisatn or the Taliban in Afghanistan. Kids learn to memorize and recite the Koran with little understanding.