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To: BlatherNaut

Hmmm...

In Matthew, a rich young man asks Jesus what actions bring eternal life. First Jesus advises the man to obey the commandments. When the man responds that he already observes them, and asks what else he can do, Jesus adds:

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.

Luke has a similar episode and states that:

When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth. Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God Indeed, 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 disciples then ask Jesus who then can be saved, and Jesus replies: “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”


6 posted on 03/27/2014 5:53:50 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge

actually used 5 “avolato” places in NT but never applied to any person at all except when St. Paul refers to his “relatives?” -viz “those whom are my own flesh’ to whom he preached


11 posted on 03/27/2014 6:37:56 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.")
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