Originally posted by RJHinds
Are you claiming you know James wrote as many letters as Paul? I don't think
James was any more clearer than any of the others writers. For they can all
be easily misunderstood, the JWs and many Christian denominations is proof.
Are you claiming you know James wrote as many letters as Paul?
No. That is not what I said. That is not what I meant anyone to understand. However many James wrote, more room was given to the Apostle Paul.
Luke wrote no letters that I know of. Yet Luke occupies a large bulk of New Testament writing in his Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts.
I don't think James was any more clearer than any of the others writers. For they can all be easily misunderstood, the JWs and many Christian denominations is proof.
I may not be following you here. What I wrote, in essence, was that Paul's insight into the nature of the new covenant was clearer than that of James the brother of Jesus.
But there is no need to pit one man against the other in a competitive way. All are ours as Christians, whether Paul or Peter or Apollos or James. All are ours. And we are Christ's. And Christ is God's.
James persuaded Paul to pretend he was still under the old law keeping rituals of Moses. James thought this would appease the suspicious Jews and Jewish disciples of Jesus in Jerusalem. Paul went along with the "trick". And it blew up in his face.
I believe that it was after this experience that Paul wrote some of his clearest letters on the nature of the new covenant -
Ephesians, Galatians, Philppians, and Colossians.
My opinion is that he thought something like "I'll NEVER make that mistake again."