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Jesus is Fundamentally Socialist (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

The “eye of a needle” referenced here was a small opening in the city walls meant to reduce traffic for security. A camel piled up with goods would would have a difficult time passing through it.

I also saw that episode of 700 Club when I was a child. Old Pat there suddenly seemed real concerned that we were taking a 4000 year old work into proper context for its time on THAT issue, right?

I mean it's probably bullshit because of how convenient it is that the lines explicitly saying rich people aren't going to be as blessed are like, the ONLY works that are examined critically and turn out to mean something else entirely? Bull. Fucking. Shit.

But even if it's not a steaming pile, if you accept this interpretation, doesn't that open up the rest of the bible for complete reimagining and reinterpretation of everything written? How do we know what else is a metaphor or not? So only special 'blessed" people are supposed to translate the text correctly for us illiterate, sinful masses? I think we've been through this debate before in history.