Unlocking the New Testament Part 25 - James 1 

Me too… I’ve watched these numerous times. ❤️❤️ ❤️🛐❤️🛐❤️✝️

EndlessWonder strange

All you said is just based on assumptions

You forget brother Paul was in the 3rd heaven. So he was an eyewitness for sure... The others weren't allowed to see that. You would do well not to diss Paul... He was brilliant, and allowed to write 2/3 of the NT...

Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles. You are a Gentile and Paul is ya Apostle

Endless Wonder, sorry, but to call Paul a false apostle is, at least, strange. Then you have to call the Acts false as well, but if they are false, then the gospel of Luke must also be and so on. 🤷‍♀️ I agree that we have to follow the words of Jesus, because He is the Word and His words are the real foundation of life. But Paul’s letters, James’ letter, etc. are allowed to be there by the same Jesus and the same Holly Spirit, who made the rest of the Bible. God is big enough to chose and control the content of His book. Therefore it is good and appropriate to build our doctrine on the Bible, instead on contemporary books. God has managed to put an amazing balance on all His revelations and teachings to us and the Bible + Holly Spirit is enough to guide us to the whole truth.

Hi This is not obvious but can be worked out - this link is a guide for how it can be worked out www.jewishroots.net/library/messianic/was-the-birth-of-christ-during-tabernacles.html

Mary had children after Jesus not sure what your point is. He is saying he doesn’t call her ‘Virgin Mary’ because she had children after Jesus with Joseph. Yes she was a virgin for Jesus’s conception. The bible states everyone will call her “Blessed” that’s it. No where does it say in the bible to call her Virgin Mary that part has been made up along the way.

The New Testament was not written but the whole of the Hebrew Bible was written - not just the Torah An important ancient book is the Talmud - The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology.

@@DavidPawsonMinistrythat is what I said.

@@burneshollyman2621 You said there was no written scripture exept the Torah - what I am saying is that the whole of the Hebrew Bible was available, not just the Torah ........together with many ancient writings such as the Talmud We agree - James was written before the Gospels and before any of teh other New Testament writings

@@DavidPawsonMinistry If you mean "the Hebrew Bible," which is called The Tenakh, it was not all written down by 33CE-the Torah was. The oral tradition was dominant for parts of it. There were many different versions of compiled books. The Talmud did not start until approximately 400 CE (Babylonia, e.g., the "Babylonian Talmud" and the "Jerusalem Talmud") and onwards through Rambam and Rashi, etc. Indeed, in Judaism, the Talmud still lives and breathes and is evolving today. Obviously, the 613 Mizvot and the "oral Torah" existed before Jesus was born and various version of what became the official Tanakh. The main thing about James is that he follows the Jewish notion that you pray directly to God (no intercessor) and follow the mitzvot and it is through works, not "grace" (as preached by Paul) that you live a blessed life in accordance with Hashem's Law. There is no "salvation" nor "hell". Those are Pauline ideas.. Doing good works in following Hashem and the Mitzvot (all 613 - although some are hard to keep today) is a Jewish idea. James, as the Jewish head of the "church" (or "synagogue" in Jerusalem since they were Jewish followers), espoused that classical Jewish idea. And it is why the Pauline Gospel looks down its eyes at James and the doctrine of works in favor of Paul's idea of "grace". Paul could get more recruits with Christianity, saying, "Poof, you are saved from Hell by grace, and you don't need to be circumcised." See more on the history of The Tencht: The authoritative form of the modern Hebrew Bible used in Rabbinic Judaism is the Masoretic Text (7th to 10th century CE), which consists of 24 books, divided into chapters and pesuqim (verses). The Hebrew Bible developed during the Second Temple Period, as the Jews decided which religious texts were of divine origin; the Masoretic Text, compiled by the Jewish scribes and scholars of the Early Middle Ages, comprises the Hebrew and Aramaic 24 books that they considered authoritative.[2] The Hellenized Greek-speaking Jews of Alexandria produced a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible called "the Septuagint", that included books later identified as the Apocrypha, while the Samaritans produced their own edition of the Torah, the Samaritan Pentateuch. According to the Dutch-Israeli biblical scholar and linguist Emanuel Tov, professor of Bible Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, both of these ancient editions of the Hebrew Bible differ significantly from the medieval Masoretic Text

“Ghost writer” suggests something written with little editing or close direction by the person whose name is in the byline. Pawson’s theory here is rather that the letter was more or less dictated by James, and that it was given polish by his secretary, who was a better Greek stylist. Such a person would be better called a “secretary” or even an “editor” rather than “ghost writer,” who does the creative work *in place of* the supposed author. Important difference.

Paul said, "Is Christ divided?"

A true Jedi for sure.

The original version or the Evan Mcgreggor version?