Camel on the eye of a horizontal needle the size of a (fallen) water tower. (Matthew 19:24)
Matthew 19:24 states: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
1 million dollars feels rich in Wichita, Kansas, but you live like maybe a middle-classman on that amount of wealth in San Francisco. Also, 1 million Iranian Rials is only $23.75. So where exactly does God draw the line between having little enough wealth that we are eligible for heaven, and being too rich to go to heaven?
And if a needle could be built to the size of a water tower, with the pointy side facing up into the sky, and the eye of the needle on the bottom, partially buried in the ground and jutting up from there, and a camel successfully gets led through it, would that imply that it is easier for rich people to get to heaven nowadays than it was during biblical times?
Image generated by my prompt on Google Gemini.
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