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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

We recently went through James here, and it was wonderful! Many, including me, had not-so-good opinions about James. But some background things that helped us was knowing it was the first NT book written. James had nothing else of the New Covenant to go on, and he was addressing Jewish believers. The language sounds reminiscent of the OT, because that's all they had. But his words would have been quite revolutionary to the Jewish believers of the time.

And at various points in James, we were a pretty amazed to see how closely he tracked with some of Paul's writings!

Wow! Thanks! I had know idea. i still ahte that all we had to go on was WL's interpretation.