Why was james

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Sending people out to destroy other people's fields?

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
James 5:4 KJV

Jesus never taught us to tear down other people's fields, and it wasn't a time to reap our own, it was a time to plant, which may include pulling weeds from our own fields, but nver to destroy someone else's fields. In fact, Jesus said he didn't come to destroy anything, and it's not something he would have taught.

Paul was planting, and there were those who were destroying his fields.

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Galatians 3:1 KJV

Jesus didn't teach us to tear down each other's houses, to make ours the best on the block, envy and jealousy of someone having something better does that. We should be cleaning our own houses, and building them better, not tearing down someone else's.

So why was James sending men out to tear down other fields? And whose feilds was he destroying?

For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
Galatians 2:12 KJV

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[Replying to post 10 by polonius.advice]

Honestly, I'd rather look at the message, the thoughts James puts out there, for myself to see if it matches up with the things Jesus teaches, no matter what men say it was or wasn't. When it is looked at from that perspective I don't think it stands up very well

[tam]

[Replying to post 6 by tam]

Or perhaps he is merely making a point. The rich only think that they have wealth.

Or James knew they were rich, as he was complaining that he didn't get any of that gold.
But James, being worried about physical gold, only shows where his heart was, and how worthless his understanding was.

But there is nothing in those verses to suggest these things.


Peace again to you.

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Sure there is

[tam]

Sure there is

Would you like to expand upon that? What in those verses suggest that James was interested in literal gold?


First you stated that James sent people to mow down others' fields, but nothing in the verses suggest that either. Instead, James is speaking on behalf of those people who have been defrauded of their owed wages.




Peace again to you!

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[Replying to post 14 by tam]

. Instead, James is speaking on behalf of those people who have been defrauded of their owed wages.

No doubt,