INTRODUCTION 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Here in this passage the disciples ask Jesus who is responsible for this man’s plight (blindness)? This man,…

This sermon explores why the faulty exegesis and hermeneutic principles of the Restoration Movement and the earlier founders like the Campbells and 2nd generational leaders like David Lipscomb lead them to faulty conclusions regarding what was a Biblical essential and what was not: God's horizontal reconciliation of humanity for which slavery, racism, ethnocentrism were violations. I list five exegetical and hermeneutical fallacies they held that led them to make heretical claims.