"Then who can be saved?" (v. 26)

We have a sublime vignette before us, a scene in the ministry of Jesus which reveals not only secrets about people, life and values, but the nature of salvation itself. Unhappily, we frequently fail to understand, miss the point, strain at the gnat, and swallow the camel in attempting an explanation.

An Honest Soul

Our young man is transparently honest. (I call him young because he sounds like a student.) Like Jesus, we love him, and his good qualities are abundant. At least he came to Jesus, asking a profound question: "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Give him credit. When so many in both the first and the late twentieth centuries never bothered to inquire, much less bestir themselves, it is refreshing to behold someone who ponder…