[DreamsofPolycarp]

He said (and every translation agrees) that the Gentiles coming to faith in Christ “AGREES” with the prophecy of Amos. Doesn’t say it fulfills it. I even double checked in Greek.

Careful there pard. You will wipe out about 80 percent of the fulfilled prophecies in the NT if you take that tack. I am just a simple man, but that looks like an awfully tight corner you are in, there. Again, I could be wrong, but it looks real squishy in there.

Your friend (really!)
DoP

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“but it looks real squishy in there.”

Jame’s use of the passage to show that God’s plan
all along was to include Gentiles seems, to me,
the easiest explanation. His actual words would back up that
usage. And like EF Hutton, when he spoke, everyone
listened!

If actual words and context don’t carry a huge
amount of interpretive weight, I’m not sure where
we would go next...

best,
ampu

PS - gotta run for now, dinner time and cleaning the pool...
(suffer, how I suffer...)