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[JIMINZ]

Also, it's not referring to a literal eye of a needle. That was what they called a gate at Jerusalem. Camels could fit through, but there wasn't much room. If they were loaded down with a lot of things, they had difficulty fitting with their load.

So, it's not as impossible as that Scripture sounds like because of our lack of cultural and historical knowledge.

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The verse says.

Mat. 19:24
And again I say unto you,
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.


Mark and Luke said it this way.

Mark 10:24,25
24) And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
25) It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle,
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Luke 18:24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Luk 18:25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

The rendering for all three verses say, (A Needle) as an object used in sewing, not (The) as a place (The Needle Gate).

The word Needle is Defined in all three renderings as.

NEEDLE:
G4476
ῥαφίς
rhaphis
hraf-ece'
From ῥάπτω rhaptō, a primary word, (to sew; perhaps rather akin to the base of G4474 through the idea of puncturing); a needle: - needle.

G4474
ῥαπίζω
rhapizō
hrap-id'-zo
From a derivative of ῥέπω rhepō, a primary word, (to let fall, “rap”); to slap (with the palm of the hand): - smite (with the palm of the hand).

Notice in Mark it says, " how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God"!

So it isn't just that someone has riches, it's those who trust in those riches.

 

[faroukfarouk]

I don't think it is because they are rich and God makes it harder for them to get into Heaven. I think it is because they love their wealth more than God.

Yes; it's learning to put God first by faith, before riches.

 

[faroukfarouk]

And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. Matthew 19:24 KJV

How is it fair for someone to be born rich and then it is then harder for him to enter into heaven? You might say "they had heaven on earth" they may have however for them to experience the best of the best here on earth is not even comparable for one to experience eternal damnation.

Does one have control over this somehow? Does God send those who would of went to hell anyway into a rich family? I don't get it.

We need to repent; not tie ourselves in knots as to whether God is supposedly 'fair' according to our maybe warped human perspective.

 

[faroukfarouk]

Also, it's probably not referring to a literal eye of a needle. That was what they called a gate at Jerusalem. Camels could fit through, but there wasn't much room. If they were loaded down with a lot of things, they had difficulty fitting with their load.

So, it's not as impossible as that Scripture sounds like because of our lack of cultural and historical knowledge.

Interesting point.

Paul of course likely went to Damascus from the Jerusalem Gate, and dispensationally the image also applies: easier for a Gentile to get though the eye of the needle in the gate, than for Jew and Gentile to become united outside of Christ.