Most scholars believe that James here was writing this as a rebuttal to Paul (I believe in Romans). James made it clear that we need both components to the law... The faith (the spiritual side) and the works (the physical side). The Fathers law (instructions) was never the problem... It was always our sin (not following the law). The problem was we were not following the law how it was intended. We were adding to it, taking away from it, and missing the spiritual component of it.
The Messiah did not do away with the law... He did away with the penalties for sin (breaking the law). E.G. Animal sacrifice..... And he showed us how the law was always meant to be kept in the first place. He did not tear down the speed limit sign... He just payed one big ticket for us.
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Um nope way off on a lot of it
if you wish to bear the unbearable yoke the apostles warned the church is a subversion of the soul I would at least read chaoter 15 of acts fist your going to find that you are wrong if you do unless your interpretation is to ignore what’s plainly written by Jesus appointed apostles
they already answered this in full plain straight forward language I’m going to go ahead and believe it me follow the gospel
“And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Mark 16:15-16 KJV
and go ahead and avoid placing yoke on myself and others that no one can bear
“But there rose up certain of the sect of the
Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. And the
apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
Now therefore
why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have
troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
It seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For it seemed
good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.”
Acts 15:5-6, 10, 24-26, 28-29 KJV
It seems pretty plain that it’s a false teaching to teach people they are obligated to Moses law
“certain which went out from us have
troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:”
it also seems like it was the ordination of angels ? And not the son of God
“Let no man beguile you of your reward in a
voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,”
Colossians 2:18 KJV
What he’s talking about is this when isreal received the law
“And they made a calf in those days, and
offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Then
God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Who have
received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.”
Acts 7:41-42, 53-54
And this
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Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;
and
it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.”
Galatians 3:19
Christ however holds this position
“Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.”
Hebrews 1:2-6 KJV
angels ordained the law because of what isreal did with the calf God had turned them over to the angels
“And they made a calf in those days, and
offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Then
God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven”
the law is under this ordination is why it can’t save anyone
“Behold,
I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.”
Exodus 23:20-21
It isn’t designed to forgive sin it is designed to impute every sin and transgression , we aren’t beholden to angels without mercy or that word
“Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.”
Deuteronomy 25:12 KJV
“And
thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”
Deuteronomy 19:21
But the gospel isn’t That it’s contrary
“Ye have heard that it hath been said,
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
Matthew 5:38-39 KJV
that’s opposite doctrine because Christ didn’t speak the law , when they made the calf and worshipped it God spoke through angels and gave the angels disposition to the law because it was never the gospel of salvstion but was meant to bring us to the gospel ot was only going to last until Christ came to speak Gods truth not through angels but himself