The Truth About St. James: Misconceptions Revealed

Lesson Transcript

His preface to James. He starts off, "Though this epistle of Saint James was rejected by the ancients." Not true. It was, again, a book. Yeah, it didn't circulate as widely, but no one who, you know, I mean, it's quoted widely by early Christian writers, and it was never like, oh, a book that, yeah, we don't approve of this book or anything like that. And it, yeah, it was in the canon. Anyways, I praise it and hold it a good book.

Yet I consider that it is not the writings of any apostle, for flatly against Saint Paul and all the rest of Scripture, it ascribes righteousness to works. And as we saw earlier, he called it a gospel of straw. A little disingenuous. I praise it and hold it a good book. Well, you do just the opposite. You downgrade it and you say it's an epistle of straw, and that it contradicts all the rest of Scripture, which it doesn't at all.