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Evangelicals are now rejecting 'liberal' teachings of Jesus (www.newsweek.com)

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean, I guess you could get that camel through the eye of a needle by liquefying it first. Maybe the same step could be taken to get Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg into heaven.

[–] Mostly_Harmless@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The people on the Titan sub really gamed the system!

[–] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Holy shit lmao

[+] HerbalGamer@lemmy.world -9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Eye of the needle was a very narrow gate in ( I think) Jerusalem, through which goods had to pass because of some rule against bringing too much to market and establishing a monopoly.

Source: probably read it on the internet somewhere

Edit: yeah totally wrong I get it

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That's not really substantiated by any evidence. It's much more likely that the Aramaic word for "heavy rope" was mistranslated as "camel".

[–] HerbalGamer@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

That also doesn't sound unlikely, given humanity's track record

[–] bluGill@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Last time I traced that down (15 years ago), there was a midevil town that referred to their gate as the eye of the needed. However midevil is more than 1000 years after the passage in question. It was in Europe, not Jerusalem. Maybe someone cares enough to research and provide a citation.

[–] TopShelfVanilla@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Medieval is the word you're looking for. Not trying to argue anything, just thought you might like the correct spelling.

[–] bluGill@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The trouble with disgraphia is I know i'm wrong but I have no idea how to get close enough for autocorrect to get the right word. I'd say thanks, hit realistically I won't remember next time I need medieval