Does James have it out for rich people? What is the point of anointing a sick person with oil? What is the prayer of faith? Is James teaching that if you just have enough faith, God will always heal? On the other hand, James is also full of passages that have left Christians scratching their heads. “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”.“Be doers of the word, and not hearers only.”.“Be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.”.“Every good and perfect gift comes from above.”.It’s filled with famous phrases that often make their way into Christian conversation: On the one hand, James’s letter is certainly one of the most quoted books of the entire Bible. We simply don’t quite know what to do with it! Of all the books in the New Testament, James is perhaps the one that gives Christians the most difficulty. This article is part of the Why Study the Book? series.
