The marks of canonicity are settled, insofaras there is basically consensus. The canon is simply the consensus on what is best. In other words, he didn't like, but again recognized his own inability to edit the canon. I would not have anyone bound to my opinion or judgment. He called it his "epistle of straw." That said, there is simply not a mechanism for removing anything from the canon in Christian circles.Ībout this book of the Revelation of John, I leave everyone free to hold his own opinions. Martin Luther disliked James, in particular, for its emphasis on works.
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