a top priority

DiscountDeity said...

Turns out it's easy for rich people to make Jesus a top priority once they find a way to profit from Him.

Discount,

Based on your comment, I fear that I have misled you about what Jesus said.

Jesus didn't say that "making Jesus a top priority" was difficult.

Rather, what Jesus said was that "entering the kingdom of heaven" was difficult.

Jesus uses an exaggeration to highlight how difficult it is.

His apostles take Jesus to mean that it is "impossible". But Jesus doesn't leave them hanging there. He tells his apostles that it is possible.

I apologize for my statement that misled you about what the Bible teaches. It was not my intent to mislead you.

Please don't feel bad about missing the point of this passage. You are in good company. Even our venerable Steven_J misses the point of Jesus commentary to his apostles, and instead summarizes the main point as primarily concerning "wealth".

Perhaps the difficulty some seem to have in understanding what Jesus taught might be due to their preoccupation with "profit" and "wealth". (If this was going to be a difficulty for people, you'd think that Jesus might have bothered to point this out to his apostles somewhere along the way.)