2007-08-20 09:26:53 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sure! Once an animal is sacrificed (Warning: Photos from the Creation Museum are explicit and may frighten young children) as Adam & Eve show us here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10129372@N06/821924339/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10129372@N06/821924451/
... it can be made into all sorts of different things! Think about an atom, OK? That's good. Now come back to creationism. Sorry. Didn't mean to confuse ya. *Scratches head* Ay, where was I? Ah, yes. Now that the animal has been butchered it can be put into a blender, it's pieces taken to a scientist...oh, or, eh, God... who can shrink them, and then that animal can be pushed through the eye of a needle! Voila!
*Sings* ♪ "If I were a rich man, Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum..."
2007-08-20 16:09:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Instead, God should make all rich men so poor that they too can be shoved through the eye of a needle, right after the poor camel.
2007-08-20 16:35:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is just as impossible for a camel to go through the eye of a needle as it is for a rich man depending on only himself and his riches and not God to get to heaven. If you love your money more than God, you can't make it to heaven.
This is from http://www.ensignmessage.com/archives/needle.html:
MANY Bible students have attempted to prove that when Jesus said, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven," the phrase eye of a needle referred to the small gate that was opened in the great gate of an Oriental city when the latter was closed for the night. They say it is difficult, but, possible, for a camel to pass through such a gate. There is no positive evidence to support this theory and it is apparently without foundation, although many students of the Scriptures accept it. The author has been unable to find a particle of evidence that such a gate was called the eye of a needle or the needle's eye in the time of Jesus. This figurative use of the eye of a needle occurs in all three of the Synoptics - Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, and Luke 18:25. Some writers believe that Jesus wished merely to point out the difference between what is possible with man and what is possible with God. It is recorded that the disciples were astonished out of measure by the statement of Jesus. They asked: "Who then can be saved?" Jesus replied: "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible." It is more probable, however, that Jesus was illustrating something actually impossible, rich man meaning a person selfishly bound up in his riches. That such was the meaning of Jesus is becoming more and more the accepted theory among Bible scholars. In Mark 10:24 it is recorded that Jesus said: "How hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!" After relating the parable of the sower, Jesus, according to Mark 9:19, said: "And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful." Luke 18:22 tells us that Jesus told the ruler who was rich but who had kept the commandments: "Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven."
2007-08-20 16:49:03 · answer #3 · answered by jb 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why not just make the needle so big he could walk a camel through?
2007-08-20 16:32:41 · answer #4 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
what if he created a needle so big he wouldn't need a tiny camel?
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according to some of the things i've read the needle was actually a rock formation.
2007-08-20 16:37:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How do we know he would need to? I mean, in God's world a day is 1,000 years or more. If he can make a day 1,000 years then surely he could make a great big needle or a tiny little camel.
2007-08-20 16:37:01 · answer #6 · answered by Peter D 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
To answer your question directly, yes, God can do anything. However, I have heard that the "eye of a needle" refers to a hole in the walls of the cities of Israel during biblical times. They were large enough for a person or a person and donkey to get through, but a camel, with its hump and baggage the person packed on its back, would have an extremely difficult time making it through one of these.
2007-08-20 16:32:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Why wouldn't he just make a really big needle? That seems easier.
And yes he can. In fact, it's easier to do than getting a rich guy into heaven, apparently.
2007-08-20 16:31:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
"Warning: Photos from the Creation Museum are explicit . . . "
*Holy Crap!*
But on to the actual question . . . classic! I'm going to suggest something that gets overlooked, though.
Yeshua bin Joseph says "It is easier for . . . blah blah woof woof . . . Kingdom of Heaven."
Keep in mind that he ALSO said "the Kingdom of Heaven is WITHIN you." Not up in the sky somewhere. Not Pearly Gated, gold-paved streeted. *Within you.*
It's not about "getting to heaven." It's about entering a spiritual kingdom HERE and NOW that exists WITHIN all people.
And y'know what? What they're calling christianity these days ain't IT.
2007-08-20 23:31:34 · answer #9 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No.... well maybe if the eye of the needle were 6 feet wide
2007-08-20 16:35:09 · answer #10 · answered by Undead 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋