How many Evangelicals have sold all their possessions and taken up the cross in poverty ?

Question

For a rich man will NOT enter heaven until a camel can go through a needles eye.

Obviously since JESUS is the one saying this............ he aint going to help one bit !!


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Answer 1

that was not a parable or a metaphor, the eye of the needle was the name of a doorway in a wall in jerusalem, and the only way a camel could fit through it was to be stripped of it's burdens and crawl through on it's knees--Evangelicals are possibly the biggest hypocrites Christianity has to offer, so the chances of any of them getting to heaven are slim and none, and Slim left town

Answer 2

It is the followers of St. Francis of Assisi who take this up seriously, not the evangelicals. As mentioned above, the eye of the needle was a gate, however it was a metaphor or a parable, because to get through the eye of the needle you had to unburden your camel and carry these burdens through yourself. Metaphorically you had to carry the camels burden, the workers burden, and they had to be free to walk totally unburdened. Otherwise, neither could get through unless you walked through and left your possession and became poor yourself.

So it had a dual meaning. One meaning is that you could leave your possessions behind and walk through. The alternative was for the rich merchant to do the extraordinary amount of work a camel does in order to get both the merchandise and the camel through. You had to unburden the worker and carry their load for at time.

Answer 3

Back it up one second..it is easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven.
The eye of a needle for the camel is an entrance this animal must take, and it has to kneel to go thru it.
This is found in Isreal. This vs means simply that greed often far outweighs ones spiritual walk with God.
Jesus, is helping, which is why he is giving the answer.
Now ya get it.

Answer 4

Very few since they tend to preach Word of Faith.

Certainly Bible waver George Bush, Jr. has not given up his possessions and taken up a cross of poverty. Neither have Bill and Hillary Clinton, two other known Bible wavers.

Answer 5

its a metaphor as others have described nothing jesus (if he existed) said was to be taken literally

he spoke in metaphors and parables like the lake of fire was gehenna it was a garbage dump

and of course jesus aint gonna help if he existed he is dead

atheists respect jesus more than christians we want the man to rest in peace unlike you guys always talking about he is gonna drop out of the sky like some kind of avenging angel

Answer 6

It becomes more and more difficult not to accumilate material things. eBay keeps me in focus. When I have too much I sell it on eBay.

Answer 7

I imagine very few have willingly done so.

Answer 8

It's a metaphor for "don't be greedy."