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The term "eye of a needle" is used as a metaphor for a very narrow opening. It occurs several times throughout the Talmud. The New Testament quotes Jesus as saying that "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".
The term "eye of a needle" is used as a metaphor for a very narrow opening. It occurs several times throughout the Talmud. The New Testament quotes Jesus as saying that "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".
Matthew 19:24 presents us with a picture of difficulty. Jesus gives us a picture of a large thing, a camel, and a very small thing, the eye of a needle. And again I say to you, 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.”
Since a “thick rope” is smaller than a camel, they argue that a rich man can enter heaven but it will require great effort. Others say that the eye of the needle was actually the name of a small gate that a camel could get through but only with great effort. Both views distort Jesus’ message that rich people will not come to God.
The "Eye of the Needle" has been claimed to be a gate in Jerusalem, which opened after the main gate was closed at night. A camel could not pass through the smaller gate unless it was stooped and had its baggage removed. The story has been put forth since at least the 15th century and possibly as far back as the 9th century.
But rope through a needle is nothing like the same concept as a camel passing through the 'entranceway' of the eye of a needle. The concepts are so totally different that the idea of 'rope' falls down. The threading of a rope, instead of a thread, is not at all the same concept as the eye of a needle being seen as an entrance of restriction.
Three of the four gospels refer to a camel going through the eye of a needle. They are Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25, and Luke 18:25. Again I say to you, 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. Matthew 19:24 (NASB) Our question is, “What is the eye of a needle?” A Geographical ...
The page notes that for a rope to go through the eye of a needle, it would have to be unwound. It would be difficult, to be sure, but not impossible. Of course, Jesus does say in the passage that with man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
"Only those who put money above man and give it power in their minds by worshiping it, are the "rich" men to whom Jesus referred in His story about the camel and the needle's eye." (p. 80, ch. 5) For Fillmore, the saying about the camel and the needle is not a problem as far as holding that God wants prosperity in each person's life.
But he didn't, because it is possible for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. If you first cut the camel into exceedingly small pieces, the camel can be threaded through. This is a radical transformation of the camel, and the camel would not be recognizable once this operation was completed. And that's the point.