Always great to join Cy Kellett and the Catholic Answers Live crew to discuss things important for our lives, the Church and the World.
Today we dealt with “myths of the Bible” — things that people think are in the Bible, but are really not. For example, when Jesus said “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven” was he referring to a gate in the walls of Jerusalem? Many think so, but we debunk this myth and many more.
You can also read my article “Six Biblical Myths Debunked” published in Catholic Answers Magazine HERE.
Questions Covered:
- Questions addressed in the intro: Did shepherds break the legs of wandering lambs? Is the “the eye of a needle” a gate? Is there significance to the “folded napkin” in the tomb of Christ? Does winter preclude shepherds from being in the fields on December 25? and more…
- 17:33 – Should we take every word that Jesus said literally? Ex. Pluck your eye out if it causes you to sin.
- 30:26 – What are your thoughts on a priest who claimed that feeding the 5 thousand was not literal?
- 35:46 – What are your thoughts on Jonah?
- 38:38 – I heard that the sponge they used to give Jesus wine on the cross was a sponge the Romans used to clean up after using the restroom. Is that true?
- 45:40 – You guys are wrong about the eye of the needle — it was a gate.
- 49:58 – Is the miracle of Jesus raising a man from the dead a prefigurement of his death?
- 52:30 – Saul/Paul was given a new name at his conversion.
- 53:12 – They used to swaddle lambs so it wouldn’t get blemished.