The Brother They Tried to Erase: James, the Witness Nobody Mentions
Part 6 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series by eFireTemple The Man Who Was There There is a witness to Jesus that Christianity has systematically undervalued, marginalized, and in one famous case tried to remove from scripture entirely. His name is James. He did not encounter Jesus on a road in a blinding light. He did not receive visions or write letters to churches he planted across the Gentile world. He did not build a theological system that reshaped Western civilization. He grew up in the same house.
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Part 6 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series by eFireTemple The Man Who Was There There is a witness to Jesus that Christianity has systematically undervalued, marginalized, and in one famous case tried to remove from scripture entirely. His name is James. He did not encounter Jesus on a road in a blinding light. He did not receive visions or write letters to churches he planted across the Gentile world. He did not build a theological system that reshaped Western civilization. He grew up in the same house. Whatever Jesus was — whatever he taught, whatever he embodied, whatever kind of person he actually was across the ordinary years before his ministry began — James knew it firsthand. Not through revelation. Not through scripture. Through proximity. Through shared meals and shared labor and the accumulated texture of a shared life. That witness has been quietly set aside.
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