Comments by "Classical LP Vault" (@classicallpvault8251) on "The Camel and Needle: Did Scholars Mistranslate Jesus's Famous Saying?" video.

  1. The moment you die, you leave all your worldly posessions behind. There are no poor and rich people in death so the saying cannot be taken literally anyways. It might also just be a fabrication, we have no idea how much or how little the New Testament actually reflects the exact teachings of Jesus because all the gospels were written after His death, in some cases more than a century later. Any explanation for this quote does not explain the difference between Jesus' actions and words. Joseph of Arimathea was an associate of Jesus and was well off, he's explicitly being described as being rich in the Gospel of Matthew, so Jesus himself clearly was not hostile to rich people. Also, the only effective way to prevent competent people from growing rich, is to steal their wealth, which is a direct violation of the Ten Commandments. The same demonic impulses that have produced communism in modern times, were present in people in Antiquity and resentment towards the well-off is a human universal, so it cannot at all be ruled out that the Gospels were corrupted by ideologues who twisted the teachings of Christ to fit in with their own ideas, this is how myth forming works. Religions have been corrupted since the very beginning and are still being corrupted nowadays, look at Joel Osteen for example, who is just as demonic as the communists but for the opposite reason, not for hating the rich but for veneration of material wealth and turning Christianity into a cargo cult. But even if the statement is a legitimate reproduction of Jesus' words, why should we take it literally? If a person today would make a remark like that, we would, correctly, assume it's a hyperbolic figure-of-speech, nothing more.
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