[JHavard]

Neither side of view strikes me as overwhelming (and I'm not sure why it's that relevant).

I guess that if you don't find it overwhelming that Mary has at least 6 other children besides Jesus, and still remained a Virgin, I will take those tickets to London.:-)

[IMRight]

I meant, of course, that I don't find either argument compelling enough that I condsidder it an issue that can be resolved here. I'm happy to agree to disagree on this one. (This may be an error on my part, it always stuck me as a tangential issue, but I wanted my next heavy Scripture time to be replying to the issues I promissed to respond to a couple days ago - OT prophesy regarding the establishment of the church in Rome).

It's been a particulary busy couple of days at work.

[dadwags]

#1093
JH, you are either invincibly ignorant or willfully Lying .
If Mary had other children, why does John record Jesus as giving her to him as mother and him to her as son ? in Jewish society, surviving sons were required to support their mothers .
Watch it, buster .