The Repentant Camel

In my latest podcast, “Malchut Shamayim,” I speak a little about the statement that Jesus made, which is recorded in Matthew 19:24, “…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.”

Why a camel through the eye of a needle? Couldn’t he have said, it’s easier for a pig to fly or a spider to eat a horse?

The reason that Jesus used the particular saying of a camel going through the eye of a needle has to do with a common teaching about repentance, as well as a first century rabbinic style of teaching.

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Blessings,
Johnny

The Only Word of God

Many Christian denominations hold as a doctrine that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the only divinely inspired teachings that constitute the rule and faith of a Christian life.

In Jesus’ day, commentary on the Written Torah, which was only translated verbally through memorization until 200 A.D. was also considered authoritative and divinely inspired.

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Thanks,
Johnny

Why Sunday?

I have always wondered why we have collective worship on Sunday, and when I ask those I think will know, I always get the same response: “It’s the day that Jesus rose from the grave.”

Based on Jewish studies and research, I have reason to challenge that answer.

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God Is Not a Babysitter!

WARNING: This may be disturbing to some readers. This article includes news of sexual brutality towards a child.

Monday evening I turned on the television in a hotel room in Gatlinburg, TN to hear something that made my blood boil…toward God. I was so disturbed by what I had heard that I found myself having difficulty sleeping. There were even moments when I wanted to scream out and cry for the misery that had been given to an innocent toddler who had no one to turn to…not even God.

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