Very cool observations. The Bible sure isn’t what a lot of people think!

Want to hear something else cool? Bible scholars are pretty sure Jesus really meant an actual sewing needle in that camel story, not a gate in Jerusalem. The gate story idea was probably first proposed in the 15th century, and became popular again in the 20th century. Scholars who should know say no evidence points to such a gate existing in Jerusalem and, perhaps as importantly, the metaphor is a Talmudic tradition arising from stories that pre-date Jesus, always in the context of a real sewing needle going by Talmudic discourse.

The gate story seems to have been proposed many centuries later by people who objected to the stronger implications of the needle metaphor. Because, you know, a camel could get through the mythical gate if it kneeled. It could never get through the eye of a real sewing needle.