No problem Worshipper.
But the understanding you shared about the "richman and eye of the needle" is not correct according to Early Church Leaders usage.
The "eye of the needle" Christ was refering to, is the human sized walk ways thru the great walls around major cities. They were much smaller and narrower than the big arch ways where major roads passed into and out of those cities.
A camel would have to drop on its knees and crawl thru one of them, packed or unpacked. It had nothing to do with any location in the Middle East of that time. Thats why Jesus refered to that as being very difficult.
InHisLove-
Thats the whole idea behind understanding God's message in His Word. Jesus declared- "I am the door, by Me if any man enters in..."
Fact is Jesus was a man standing before the crowd speaking such things. So, we don't take the Scripture that Jesus is a literal door, but that "literally", He is the Way, the Truth and the Life".
God uses spiritual, symbolic and figurative examples for expressing His "Literal" Truths and thats what needs to be understood. People who try to claim God's Word cannot be taken "literally", are clearly not understanding God correctly, therefore claim fundamental approaches are wrong.
If I stated- "I just saw a young kid go flying down the driveway here." What would people think? They had real wings and actually flew thru the air down the driveway? Of course not. They were either running real fast, rode a bike real fast or some other physical way down the driveway.
God teaches us to use good Godly sense He gave us to understand His Word correctly. As I stated in another thread on this site, God Teaches us a balance of how to take His Word. While standing firm and bold on His Word- (Fundamental), we are still to show love, forgiveness, loving those who hate us etc- (liberal).
Assuch, when we read God's Word, one of the main Principles for nderstanding His Word clearly, is to take His Word as literallyspoken, to mean what It says, in thecontext of applying spiritual, symbolic, and figurative meanings where God applies this.
as for the removing and casting out of an evil eye, or cutting off of a hand that does evil. Is it not Jesus showing us how contradictory evil is to good and the symbolic understanding of how we are to keep ourselves seperate and how it taints us when we sin?
Don't say sin can't taint us after recieving Salvation. For if it didn't, what need is there to repent and seek forgiveness when we sin? Thats why Jesus gave us those examples of how bad it is to allow ourselves to allow sin to stay with us, that its better to remove the part of the body that causes us to, than to allow it to stay, tainting us to do so again.
Thats why as well, Jesus spoke of sin starting as evil thoughts first- (Sermon on the Mount). If a man lusteth after a woman, he has comitted adultery with her already in his heart. It hasn't even reached the physical act stage as yet.
So, if sin starts with an evil thought that lingers to a wrongful level, we can know it will soon be tried to be carried out physically also if held on to too long.
God Bless!!