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Originally Posted by aron
We don't know what Jesus told James. But in order to relegate James to second-tier status, we'd need to presume that either Jesus didn't tell James very much, saving the 'good stuff' for Paul, or that Jesus told James the truth but James corrupted this with his natural Jewish concepts. None of this was clearly indicated anywhere else.
Yes, "some came from James" in Paul's Galatians letter, but how does that force James' epistle in any way?
No, the only safe thing is to assume Jesus gave James revelation concerning Himself, the so-called 'straight skinny', and that James was as obedient to the heavenly vision as Paul was to his. To begin to differentiate based on our own meta-narrative is unwise. To do so is creating a conclusion to the New Testament, and reading those conclusions back onto the text.
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Not "some came from James". but "some JUDAIZERS came from James". If James was a Paul, then I'm sure that James would have sorted out those Judaizers and told them it's not right for you to circumcise Gentiles. To me the answer is obvious, it is the reason why 48% of our New Testament is written by Paul, and only 4% by James.