Not a lot of debate among scholars. There's no other evidence of the "eye of the needle" being used in a way that refers to the small doorway in a larger city gate or any of the other alternative readings. Conversely, there are sewing needles dated to that time and place that are roughly the same as modern sewing needles.

The statement is exactly as radical as it looks at first glance. Rich people can't be right with God, period. All the rest is trying to invent a loophole to let rich people be Christians after Constantine made it widespread in the Roman Empire. First century Christians were almost entirely made of the poor people of the Empire, and would have had no problem at all with the statement as read. The modern reinterpretation is often argued by the exact same people who say you're not supposed to "read between the lines" of the Bible.

Here's a Religion for Breakfast video on it: https://youtu.be/sf0Fm8aVApk

And don't get me started on Paul's "the love of money is the root of all evil". Just totally bastardized for the Prosperity Gospel.

I wonder how high the rent in hell is.

Check prices by the jersey turnpike

No, he gets Paradise, but he never has to do nothing all day + never use his hands.

Why do we have to wait until he dies

20% increase in living expenses with no salary adjustment.

Not just taxes on what he makes in hell, but also the taxes he was supposed to pay while alive.

And the debt accrues interest.

I'll add only that inflation 's a bitch, and you don't get raises in hell.

The word for Aramaic word for "camel" is basically the same as for "heavy rope", which is a much more reasonable interpretation. Just as a rope is too big to fit through the eye of a needle, so is the material obsession of a rich person too big.

No, because he'll still need to pay rent, utilities, and taxes. He'll be lucky if he pays off that debt before the heat death of the universe.

Probably pretty cheap considering people are always dying to get in there

And will netflix run with the idea because I'd like to watch

The original word means thick string iirc. Still hard, but not quite as ludicrous

Hierarchy!

Man, don't you know? The law ain't made to help earthy cats like us. Here on our planet, back in the old days - back in the real old days - it was just every man for himself, scrooblin' and scrat-scroblin' for the good stuff, the greenest valleys. And the strongest, meanest men got the best stuff. They got the green valleys and were like 'The rest of you, y'all scrats get sand.' And that's when they made the laws, you see? Once the strong guys got it how they liked it, they said 'This is fair now, this is the law.' Once they were winning, they changed the rules up

~ Jake the dog

In parallel and multiple dimensions.

Not to confuse with universes.
We are now in the mirror universe.

Assuming his networth 241 billion, 7 dollar minimum wage, 24 hour workdays, that would be just under 4 million years

Surely that'd make it expensive! It's in high demand!

I say tack on another week of wages for every disciplinary action, and if he somehow still magically becomes a perfect employee and completes it with the handicap, fuck it, let him into heaven.

I don't trust Bezos to distribute his wealth, but I sure as fuck don't trust anarchists or tankies to do it, either. I DO trust a democracy to do it via taxation, but apparently that's a fucking minority, too, so it never gets enough votes.