The Jefferson “Bible” was incomplete because Ol’ Tom took scissors and cut out everything he didn’t like, thereby putting himself under the curse at the end of Revelation about punishment to any human adding to or subtracting from God’s inspired Word.
-The “eye of the camel” was a very low city gate that a camel had to get down and crawl through, but a determined camel driver could get his camel through with the goods to sell that he had packed onto the camel’s back.-As to salvation, “educated” and “rich” people tend to think themselves above the need for repenting of their sins and asking God the Creator for forgiveness and for the free offer of eternal life with God. That is the Biblical difficulty that rich people tend to have. And God’s Word says (I paraphrase) so what if you gain the (riches) of the whole world, and thereby lose your soul and your opportunity to be granted to have your name inscribed in the Lamb’s Book of Life. The Lamb being Jesus, the Son of God who died to pay for our sins.-(P.S. that is what the Judaic Seder, or Passover, is all about, but most Jewish people have been blinded to the true meaning of God’s Exodus Seder meal. Egypt is the symbol for a Life of Sin. Sin is rejecting God’s scriptures and making up a “human religion” instead of God’s commanded worship that Jesus completed on the Cross and continued after Jesus’ resurrection in the Acts Jerusalem Jewish “Church” that awaits the next phase of God’s Plan…found in the Bible.)
-The “eye of the camel” was a very low city gate that a camel had to get down and crawl through, but a determined camel driver could get his camel through with the goods to sell that he had packed onto the camel’s back.-As to salvation, “educated” and “rich” people tend to think themselves above the need for repenting of their sins and asking God the Creator for forgiveness and for the free offer of eternal life with God. That is the Biblical difficulty that rich people tend to have. And God’s Word says (I paraphrase) so what if you gain the (riches) of the whole world, and thereby lose your soul and your opportunity to be granted to have your name inscribed in the Lamb’s Book of Life. The Lamb being Jesus, the Son of God who died to pay for our sins.-(P.S. that is what the Judaic Seder, or Passover, is all about, but most Jewish people have been blinded to the true meaning of God’s Exodus Seder meal. Egypt is the symbol for a Life of Sin. Sin is rejecting God’s scriptures and making up a “human religion” instead of God’s commanded worship that Jesus completed on the Cross and continued after Jesus’ resurrection in the Acts Jerusalem Jewish “Church” that awaits the next phase of God’s Plan…found in the Bible.)