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Threading the Needle: How an Early Christian Writing Made a Way for the Rich to Get Into Heaven (LCI)

To say that the New Testament has some negative things to say about the wealthy would be an understatement:

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Mt. 19:24, KJV).

“Woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation” (Lk. 6:20, KJV)!

“Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats” (Jas. 2:6, KJV)?

“He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away” (Lk. 1:53, KJV).

From a reading of these verses alone, it would be reasonable to conclude that wealth is a grave sin, that having money is a form of oppression against those who have not, and that no rich people will be allowed into heaven…

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