Saying of Jesus in Mark's Gospel, also found in Matthew and Luke. Part of a teaching scene sparked by a man asking Jesus how to live forever, in essence, Jesus tells his disciples that humanity cannot achieve salvation or eternal life without God. This saying was preceded by the aphorism, "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 (v. 25)" and
children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God (v. 24 NAS 1995).
Though it be difficult to get or find, redemption - overcoming death - is possible because of God.
A. Without God, there would be nothing.
B. God is the maker of the possible and the impossible.
"You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only if you are being addressed" L. Wittgenstein, Zettel tr. Anscombe (Berkeley: Univ. of Cal. Press, 1970), p. 124e, #717
He who has ears, let him hear! There is light within ... GTh 24 (cf. Mt 11:15, 13:9; Mk 4:9; Lk 8:8)
Take care then how you hear Lk 8:18 (also, Mk 4:24)
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