2021年11月14日日曜日
Rich man cannot enter the kingdom of God
1
If I were to say that the reason why Ishii Clinic's profits are low is
because of Christianity, I'd actually only be half joking. I first
began hearing about the story of Christ when I entered preschool at
the age of 4, and after attending mass I would read bible stories in
the form of picture books. At the time the only doubt that my naive
young self had was that I couldn't understand how someone that was
executed 2000 years ago could be the savior.
There's a saying in the bible: "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."
From 4 years old and through elementary and middle school I heard that
saying many times. "I see, if I become rich then I won't get to
heaven." That's what I'd become indoctrinated to believe. The thing
about indoctrination during childhood is that it's hard to break even
as an adult, so after opening my business I felt that being greedy and
saving every penny would catch god's attention and lead to misfortune
in the future, so I didn't focus much attention on profits. Plus there
was also the fact that I just straight up didn't have much in the way
of business sense, which was probably the main cause of my financial
misfortune.
2
While there is a passage in the bible about a camel passing through
the eye of a needle, some bible scholars are of the opinion that this
passage is a mistranslation. Society during the time of Jesus Christ
was multilingual, so in addition to ancient Hebrew, the ancient Syriac
(Aramaic) language was also spoken in Christ's hometown of Nazareth,
and it's possible this was the language he spoke. Since then, the
bible has been translated into Greek & Latin, and now in the present
day we find ourselves at the point that the bible has been translated
and retranslated so many times now that it's only natural that
mistranslated phrases would show up. Some scholars are of the opinion
that the phrase isn't referring to a camel, but rather a camel's rope.
This theory makes sense to me. A rope that pulls a camel sounds more
like something that would pass through the eye of a needle, and the
story seems to make sense on the whole. If it's supposed to be a
camel's rope, then maybe with a little effort someone heading for hell
can make the changes needed to be heaven bound.
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