Are you sure you watched the whole one hour documentary above? The video doesn't slander James. It is pro-James and anti-Paul. It claims that Paul embellished his version of Jesus as a pie in the sky theological God, and that his theological Jesus was more accurate than the historical Jesus that James knew. It ascertains that James and Jesus' immediate family had a different account of Jesus than Paul did, and since they knew the historical Jesus then their account is more likely to be more accurate than Paul's, especially since Paul never met the historical Jesus. There is evidence that the account of Jesus that James wanted to tell the world was vastly different from Paul, but because James faction lost and Paul's faction won, it was suppressed and not told in official canon.MrMan wrote: ↑November 23rd, 2018, 12:32 pmThis is a very liberal reinterpretation of the Bible. There is no evidence that Paul was trying to get Jews to eat kosher foods. Christians used to eat bread and wine with each other. There is nothing inherently non-kosher about either of those things (if it isn't the week of unleaven bread and Passover season.) There were Jewish traditions in Judea against eating with Gentiles at all, no matter if the food was kosher or not, or going into their houses. These weren't written in the BIble. Probably the Hellenistic Jews in the diaspora did not follow these Pharisaical traditions, and it is likely that many Jews throughout the countryside of Judea or Galilee did not usually follow them either. Peter stopped eating with Gentiles after some Jews came from Jerusalem, but there is no indication that James told them not to eat with Gentiles.
The video slanders James with no evidence whatsoever. The video has some outright lies in it. There is no evidence that James taught that Gentiles must eat kosher foods if they are with Jews. That's totally made up. There is no evidence for that in the Bible, and where else could they possibly get evidence? That wasn't the issue at all. It's not a sin for Gentiles to eat beef slaughtered by Jews, and it is not reasonable to think from Paul's writings that he would have opposed this.
There is no reason to think that James supported the Jews who wanted to circumcise Gentiles, either, which was one of Paul's major concerns in Galatians. Acts shows that he held to the opposite opinion.
See the above links about the Ebionites for more info. It seems you are going off what Paul wrote, and what the NT says. If you look at the Gospel of the Ebionites or the Gospel of the Nazarenes, which was based on the version of Christianity that James preached, you get a very different picture.