said as he watched ,)r Koreman him go has caused ; a great deal el discussion, both j at the time and ever since. Accord ing to Matthew. Jesus said that it is harder for a rich man to enter God's Kingdom 'that is. to have eternal life, or to be saved! than : for a camel to get through a needle's eye. All sorts of efforts have been made to show that Jesus could not possibly have meant tins. The : -words translated camel" and "needle's eye" Could possibly moan something else, hut they probably don't We may as well face it. Jesus meant to say that the only way a camel could get through a needle's eye is by a mira cle: and it is more of a miracle for a rich man to enter the King dom of God than for a cans 1 to pass through a needle's eye He did not say it was impossible, he difl say it was possible only . Jii God. This is as shocking in JOth century America as in first cen tury Palestine. !

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