#47134
Sheelah
Moderator

Yes, Andrew, that is a good summary of what James is teaching as he always comes back to the fact that we learn to read scripture through the eyes of Jesus our Rabbi. You will find that during the course James constantly has us reading Jesus’ commentary on the Hebrew texts, and giving his listeners an entirely new way of reading them. This is as much a revelation for us today as it as for them then. James tells us that we have to relax into this new way of seeing; the ‘new creation in Christ’.