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- James evidently was not a follower of Jesus during his public ministry. Paul attributes James’s later conversion to the appearance of Christ resurrected (1 Corinthians 15:7).
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Dec 15, 2015 · According to the gospels and first-century Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, James was the brother of Jesus Christ. He was also converted to the early Christian movement after witnessing the risen Jesus (1 Cor. 15:7).
Jul 26, 2017 · The apostle Paul refers to meeting only two people when he went to back to Jerusalem after his own conversion: Peter and “James, the Lord’s brother” (Galatians 1:19).
May 21, 2024 · James evidently was not a follower of Jesus during his public ministry. Paul attributes James’s later conversion to the appearance of Christ resurrected (1 Corinthians 15:7).
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- This Would Be Embarrassing For James
- James Conversion Is Attested Very Early
- James Martyrdom Is Evidence of His Radical Conversion
- James Conversion Is Well Established
Even more radically, James becomes a leader in the early church and suffered martyrdom because of it. James’ martyrdom also passes the criterion of embarrassment. Essentially, this criterion argues that the early church would not make up an embarrassing detail, a detail that would make them look silly, if it didn’t actually happen. In other words, ...
Thirdly, that Jesus appeared to James is attested early. Paul names James as a receptor of Jesus’ post-mortem appearance in the early creed (1 Cor. 15:3-7) that dates to within three to five years of Jesus’ death. This negates any accusation of later legendary embellishments, according to Ludemann: In fact, this is certain as Paul had direct access...
Fifth, James was willing to suffer and die for his faith in the risen Jesus. In fact, James does die as a martyr as recorded by the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius who tells us that James “the brother of Jesus, who was called the Christ…was delivered to be stoned” (5). This passage (the second reference to Jesus in Josephus’ writing) is, accordin...
For these several reasons we can know confidently that James was converted to faith in Jesus after his experience of the risen Jesus. Reginald Fuller writes that: “It might be said that if there were no record of an appearance to James the Lord’s brother in the New Testament we should have to invent one in order to account for his post-resurrection...
In Paul's account of his visit to Jerusalem in Galatians 1:18 -19, he states that he stayed with Cephas (better known as Peter) and James, the brother of the Lord, was the only other apostle he met. Paul describes James as being one of the persons to whom the risen Christ showed himself, ( 1 Corinthians 15 :3–8).
There are several data points that give evidence to a struggle between the Apostle Paul and the brother of Jesus, known in the early church as "James the Just." I do not want to engage in this debate, but I will quickly list the data.
For, unlike Paul, James had firsthand encounters with the earthly Jesus, yet Paul’s strong personal experience of the risen Lord shaped his theology and identity as an apostle to the Gentiles. James is first identified in Mark 6:3 as one of the four brothers of Jesus.
