Here is another viewpoint on the Eye of the Needle article I posted yesterday. Maybe they are right, and I am wrong on the camel having to be hobbled on its knees to go through the gate. In any case, we agree that only Jesus saves! Only His death, burial and resurrection from the dead provide forgiveness of our sins, salvation and eternal life! There is no other way to heaven…
Jesus’ warning is so troubling that (rich) commentators have claimed it was a gate in Jerusalem that required a camel to hunch down to make it through. But this explanation originated in the Middle Ages when scholarship wasn’t too good. There is a gate in Jerusalem called “the eye of the needle,” but it was built 1,000 years after Jesus walked the Earth, so He couldn’t have been referring to it.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. — Matt 19: 24.
But really the eye of the needle is just that: an eye of a needle. It turns out that Jesus loved hyperbole — a rhetorical device of extreme exaggeration to highlight the importance of the saying.
So what is Jesus saying? First, riches can make it very hard for you…
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