The book of James is aimed at telling believers to do good works to make their beliefs come alive. It's for believers, not for telling non-believers that they can be saved by works. It's often misinterpreted that way.
You don't think James the brother of Jesus might have written that to straighten out the hogwash that Paul was spewing? And then Jesus praised the church at Ephesus for expelling Paul. Then Paul bemoans his expulsion in his letter to Timothy thus verifying Jesus' message in Revelation 2.
Wide is the gate and broad is the road. If something seems too easy it might be a lie. Especially when a dissatisfied deck hand starts countermanding the ship captains orders.
Why are you obsessed with rejecting the writings of Paul? Are you a gnostic?
He was referencing Carl Jung. That's as close to gnosticism as we get today.
Carl Jung, the father of modern psychology? He was gnostic and spoke about an entity named Philemon.
The other "gnostics" I think are those self professed that spent some years in a college with a department of philosophy and religious studies.
