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And if you read the rest of that story from verse 20 on, Jesus tells this say young man to sell everything he owns so that he can enter heaven.
So the lesson then by your understanding is that rich people cannot be saved.
Verse 23-26 then says that the disciples were shocked at that teaching...."Who then can be saved"?
This is what happens when the Bible is not correctly understood and we add into it what we want it to say.
Actually, the imperative "Keep the commandments" was intended to drive home to this young man the point of his pride, and self righteousness. Jesus did not believe that the mere keeping of the law brought anyone salvation.
He had already told Nicademous that in order to enter the kingdom of God.....He had to be born again. He did not tell Nicky that he then had to keep the commandments. So why did He say this to this man here????????
In 1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him
Again...clean cut words from the Bible!!