>From: "Everitt Mickey" <evmick@pnv.net>
>From: zeb haradon <zebharadon@hotmail.com>
> >And don't forget the thing about how "it would be easier to fit a camel
> >through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter the gates of
> >heaven" (or something like that).
> >
>
>Gotta be careful here...."the eye of the needle" was the name of one of the
>gates in the wall surrounding jersuleam.....a camel COULD fit thru it...but
>only with great difficulty.....
My former pastor gave that explanation during a sermon one Sunday morning.
However, when I pressed her for references for that claim, she had none and
explained that she had heard it in a sermon by some other pastor. I
subsequently did my own research on it and came up with a big fat nothing.
My guess is that this story is just a myth to water down the extremism of
Jesus' message. If anyone has any refs one way or the other on this "eye of
the needle" question, please enlighten me.
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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