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The book of James is both beloved for its practical wisdom and debated as to its relationship to Paul’s Gospel. It offers concrete counsel on trials, poverty and riches, favoritism, social justice, the tongue, worldliness, boasting, planning, prayer, illness, and more. But in doing so, it exposes our inability to measure up to God’s standard. Daniel Doriani, a pastor and scholar recognized for...
Whether James consciously corrected an abuse of Paul’s teaching or not, he certainly corrected an erroneous concept of faith. Adolf Schlatter, a Swiss scholar, said it this way: That I say I have faith cannot possibly free me from sin, guilt, and punishment. How could something I say be my deliverance? Not that I say I have faith, but that I exercise faith, that saves me, situates me in God’s peace, brings me God’s grace, and is my righteousness before God.… If faith gave me merely words, then it
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