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The Bible seems to imply that rich people cannot go to Heaven - what is the meaning of this?

In Heaven and Hell it states: "The belief tha the poor enter heaven easily and the rich with difficulty comes from not understanding the Word where the rich and the poor are mentioned. The Lord said in Matthew 19:24: It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

By the rich are meant the rich in both a natural sense and a spiritual sense. In the natural sense the rich are those who have an abundance of riches and set their heart upon them, but in the spiritual sense they are those who have an abundance of cognitions and knowledges, which are spiritual riches, and who desire by means of these to introduce themselves into the things of heaven and the Church from their own intelligence."

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