Comments by "Roger Scott Cathey" (@rogerscottcathey) on "The King James Version: Translating the World's Most Popular Book." video.

  1. There are some who argue that the Syriac text the Peshitta in Aramaic has primacy over Roman Greek or Latin versions. George Lamsa chief among such. Others argue its the other way round.
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  2. One interesting clue Lamsa's claim is true is the parable regarding a "camel through the eye of a needle". In the Aramaic the word for rope is very close to the word for camel. The difference is a tiny mark over a letter. It is unlikely to imagine putting a camel through a needle's eye. A rope can be unraveled and threaded through by tortuous labour. The mistranslation makes more sense going from Aramaic to Greek.
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  3.  @DTROITMC  : They say there was a gate called the Needle, supposedly a taxing or toll gate with very strict rules, etc. I think that was a story fabricated by apologists to make sense of an absurd parable. It is impossible to put a camel through the eye of a needle. If Jesus wanted people to know being rich means no heaven, he would just have said it is impossible to enter heaven if you are rich. He just said it is very difficult, like threading a rope through the eye of a sewing needle, probably of the kind used to mend fishing nets. Difficult with a rope, but doable. Similarly, he probably said if you have the faith of a fig seed, not mustard seed. He said the seed is tiny but becomes a mighty tree that shelters people abd in which birds build nests. The type of fig tree that fits this description is the Banyan. And Banyans are most typical in the Far East, India for example. And there are oral traditions that is where the early stories were from. Only later near the time of the crucifixion was spent in Palestine. They say people lay at his feet and touched them, and that is certainly not a custom of Judean Jewry. He and John were asked if they were the reincarnations of that prophet and the promised one. Reincarnation is a Hindu belief, not Judean. Romans are only mentioned near crucifixion, not earliest tales. He was not in Israel then, he was among Jews in India.
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