@alexlago Your thesis is supported by the verse immediately preceding the section on the narrow gate: “do unto others as you would have them do unto you: this is the law and the prophets” [aka “this is the Bible”] Paul and James both have versions of this “love your neighbor as yourself: this sums up the whole law” (Paul) and “love your neighbor as yourself, the royal law” (James) REmarkably, in these version of the single command that sums up is law and the prophets [aka the Bible] use a version of “love your neighbor as yourself” and don’t include the usual “love God and Love your neighbor as yourself” Why? Obviously Jesus Paul and James were all into loving God. I think because the early Jesus people had the experience of having other people use the Bible as a weapon against them. (Just as Saul did before his seeing Jesus in a vision) …. To me, this is the narrow gate. This is the gate JOhn Wesley passed through when he came out against slave-holding. Any interpretation of “the law and the prophets” [the term the NT used for “the Bible] that harms the neighbor, that is not experienced as love by the neighbor is not a valid interpretation. Take this perspective and you will likely lose a lot of your friends and c0-religionists — because it’s a narrow gate.