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Live to eat or eat to live? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (15 children)

Real talk: Either this is some pagan ritual shit added later on by the Romans (like the polytheistic [Trinitarian] nature of Christianity and everything Paul said) or it was never meant to be taken even remotely literally. I'm going with the first one.

[โ€“] chillBurner@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Tbh, I assumed figuratively. Doesn't Jesus use figure of speech?

And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for the wealthy to enter into the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 19:24

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