[Logophile]

Faith is an action word, not static . . . . James tried to explain the contrast in the letter he wrote. He failed because his mind was steeped in 'works of the law'. James failed to explain it as the entire rest of the Bible teaches because James himself couldn't release his mind from the 'authority of the law' --and the contrast is in the Bible for our edification, to show what is not the 'believed God and it was counted for him righteousness.' Faith is better understood by seeing it as 'to faithe', an action term.

What a strange thing for a Bible-believing Christian to write! Do you really mean to say that James—no less than an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ—failed to explain faith correctly?

I do not believe that James failed at all. His epistle seems perfectly clear to me, and it accords with my own experience of faith.

The funny thing is that your description of faith as an action term also seems quite correct to me, and it agrees with what James and the other apostles to taught.

[MHGinTN]

“Do you really mean to say that James—no less than an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ—failed to explain faith correctly?” ... Yes Um, are you sure of what you wrote?... James an Apostle of the twelve?