Dear jesusavedme...
>>>"If you were blind you should not have sin, but because you say you see, your sin remaineth."? Yet Jesus also said to the Pharisees that they were "blind leading the blind". A seeming contradiction at face value<<<
Their sin was that they "INSISTED" that they could see, even though: concerning spiritual things (and with Christ standing there right before them!), they proved that were "BLIND" as bats.
Their "knowledge" of the truth was based on Scripture only (The LETTER of the law - that which made them... "proud", INSISTING that they weren't blind) and not through the Spirit of Truth ...
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63 What happens when the spiritually blind lead the spiritually blind?
They both end up in the ditch (the ditch of perdition)!
There is no contradiction!
Hope this helped you find what you're looking for.
In Christ,
Biff
http://www.uponthisrock.net