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To: PROLIFE who wrote (651)	10/13/1999 11:39:00 PM
From: Berry Picker	Respond to of 4775

That is correct.. It is like saying that it is like finding a needle in a haystack The term was a very common manner of speech. Look at these quotes from the torah they use an Elephant ( a little larger ): Quoted only for Historical Witness T. Bab. Beracot fol. 55. 2. ''Says Rabba, you know they do not show to a man a golden palm tree i.e. the interpretation of a dream about one, which, as the gloss says, is a thing he is not used to see, and of which he never thought, "nor an elephant going through the eye of a needle".'' Quoted only for Historical Witness Again Quoted only for Historical Witness T. Bab Bava Metzia, fol. 38. 2. ''perhaps thou art one of Pombeditha (a school of the Jews in Babylon) "who make an elephant pass through the eye of a needle".'' Quoted only for Historical Witness Here's one referrence that used a camel.. Quoted only for Historical Witness Chap. 7. p. 120. Ed. Sale. ''Verily, says he, they who shall charge our signs with falsehood, and shall proudly reject them, the gates of heaven shall not be opened to them, neither shall they enter into paradise, "until a camel pass through the eye of a needle".'' Quoted only for Historical Witness Jesus used another very common belief in this Parable Yho know it well: Luke 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. The Jews believe that if they were "good" then when they died they went to be with "Father Abraham" Jesus incorporated their belief system into his parable to make it hit home... However Jesus does not teach that when we die we go to Abraham anywhere. It was merely the manmade religion of the day. These qoutes are of that same stuff... I am not quoting these as authoritative at ALL !!!! Actually I have a gold stock in a company that is trying to put a camel through the eye of a needle.... err I mean looking for a needle in a haystack :-}