Yes, the letter is addressed to the twelve tribes- and like every other epistle, the wisdom it contains is for the entire church.
False. Gross error.
It says men came from James- not that James sent them to spy.
No, it is not a "key transitional inflection point". All they did was confirm what they already knew to be true- the Judaizers were false brethren with false teaching.
He is writing to people who already believe. James is watering, not planting.
And James didn't say they had to be circumcised or keep the law of Moses to be saved in his epistle either... what a coincidence!
False. Different terminology, same message.
The "transition period" was during Jesus' earthly ministry, and the temple became insufficient from the moment John the Baptist began preaching. The transition was complete when the Holy Ghost was given at Pentecost. When the New came the first was made obselete, and in 70 it "disappeared".
The existence of a temple in Jerusalem was and is irrelevant to both the effectiveness of the new covenant, and the obsolescence of the old.
The mystery was revealed the second Peter saw that gentiles receiving the Holy Ghost. Paul didn't mean "NOW" as in, "this very second", he's just saying that as opposed to people in ages past, it's being revealed to them in that generation.
What was unknown (the mystery) is that the one body would be done through the Gospel. That God would raise the tabernacle of David was known because it was in the scripture. JAMES is the one to point that out.
False. James' epistle is foundational church doctrine that comes from Jesus Christ the cornerstone. To reject James' epistle is to reject Christ.
