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Originally Posted by Intothewind
Re: James: That always struck me as odd that it was no considered as "high" of gospel as the rest. Then why is it summarily included in with the rest of the approved books? Is seeing James in the way Luther and Lee did atypical of most Christians?
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I don't think that most people outside the LC would view the book of James negatively.
I also think that WL talked a lot more about Luther than most people normally do, mainly because what Luther did supported his idea of "recovery" and the recovery "lineage" than ended with none other than WL. I might be wrong, but I think that WL can be quoted as calling Luther the 1st MOTA. Since Luther called James a "book of straw" that was convenient for WL to reference because it allowed him to provide "credibility" for his own viewpoint, and in the low information world of the LC, if more than one person says something, it must be true.