his letters to new christian communities, the epistles, make up a third of the new testament. his teachings show how determined he is to reach out to gentiles. jesus sade go and make disciples of all the nations, and that meant not just the jews. if i were james and i d heard about paul and what paul was doing, i would be hugely frustrated. paul never met the human jesus. here was james, who was jesus s brother, and this upstart was presuming to teach jesus s message and go out among the gentiles with this message? things got so bad in the relations between paul and james that ultimately they had a big conference in jerusalem to sort it out. around 50 a.d., 20 years after the execution of his brother jesus, james presides over a council of the movement s leaders.
in order to become christians, to be followers of christ. the epistles make up a third of the new testament. his teachings show how determined he is to reach out to gentiles. jesus sade go and make disciples of all the nations, and that meant not just the jews. if i were james and i d heard about paul and what paul was doing, i would be hugely frustrated. paul never met the human jesus. here was james, who was jesus brother, and this upstart was presuming to teach jesus message and go out among the gentiles with this message? things got so bad in the relations between paul and james that ultimately they had a big conference in jerusalem to sort it out. around 50 a.d., 20 years after the execution of his brother jesus, james presides over a council of the movement s
in order to convert. his epistles make up a third of the new testament. jesus said go and make disciples of all nations. that meant not just the jus. if i were james and i heard about paul, i would be hugely frustrated. paul never met the human jesus. here was james who was jesus s brother and this upstart was presuming to teach jesus s message and go out among the gentiles with this message? things fwot so bad that they had to have a conference to sort it out. 20 years after the execution of his brother, jesus, james