The rich young ruler kept every commandment and still walked away sad. Jesus didn’t argue with his failure – He confirmed it. Impossible for men, He said, without flinching. He named the wall before He told you what breaks through it. This post digs into the Greek word behind “impossible,” the first-century theology that made the disciples’ astonishment make sense, and what it means that the only variable between adynata and possible is the nearness of God.
