Why did Jesus say the man was born blind?

Lord, which did sin—this man—or his parents that he was born blind?

Neither this man, nor his parents, but that the glory of God should be manifested.

That is, not that God should be made worthier of honour by causing a miracle to be performed, but that the glory of God should be made manifest by the man becoming, through his blindness and its removal, what he could not have become in any other way.

I do not imply by this that there is no such thing as sin and its consequences—you may—you do hinder and retard your progress by your own folly, but these sins are but partial and superficial and you will soon escape from them and rise into a higher and clearer atmosphere. 

What you need to do in considering life is to look upon it as a whole. 

Proceeding forth from God—born of Him, the divine breath incarnates itself for a time in clay—it rises from the non-sentient to the sentient—to the conscious and the God-conscious until you stand complete—perfect—the I AM!