But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Mark 10: 24-25
Biblical scholars (especially ones that make a lot of money in the God business) understand that Jesus was referring to a REALLY BIG needle.
This phrase may refer to a rock formation. The rock formation was such that camels had to get on their bellies and crawl through making it a particularly difficult passage for traders. This may have been a colloquialism that his contemporaries easily understood. Sort of a early version of us saying "drink the kool aid."
ReplyDeleteI suppose that's possible, Wesley, however, judging by the surrounding text immediately before and after this verse; it seems fairly clear that the writer of Mark was attempting to state that wealth was not a desired state to enter heaven. I'm guessing that the writer (or better stated, the last editor) was trying to convey near impossibility for either circumstance.
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