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The Bible Recap

Day 326 (James 1-5) - Year 4

The Bible Recap

Tara-Leigh Cobble

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.936.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

0:13.1

If you're doing our New Testament plan, you finished your fifth book today and if you're

0:16.5

doing the whole Bible, you finished your 44th book.

0:19.4

This book has a lot going on, so we'll only have time to hit the major points.

0:23.2

Let's get into it.

0:24.4

This book was written by the half-brother of Jesus, which is incredible given that his brothers

0:28.4

used to mock him, but this book shows what an incredible change of heart James went

0:32.6

through because it opens with the author calling himself a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus

0:37.5

Christ, from mocking him to serving him.

0:40.9

But spoiler alert, this book isn't actually by James, huh?

0:45.8

It seems the real name of this James and every other James in the Bible is Jacobus or

0:50.4

Jacobus or Jacob in English, so that's what we'll call him.

0:55.0

It turns out that there was a problem a few hundred years ago when they translated this

0:58.6

book to English, so only English speakers encounter this issue.

1:02.2

We'll link to more info on this in the show notes in case you're interested.

1:06.4

This letter is written to the church outside of Israel, and that's important.

1:10.3

It's written to believers.

1:12.0

If we take it out of that context, it sounds like this book is listing things we have to

1:16.0

do in order to earn God's approval instead of them being things that serve as markers

1:20.3

of knowing him.

1:22.0

After the centuries, this book has caused quite a stir because it seems to be advocating

1:25.6

salvation by works, which is contrary to everything else in Scripture.

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