Wow! You know which languages the Holy Spirit understands and restrict Him from speaking English? Just wow! He did inspire the New Testament to be written in Koine Greek which has two distinctly different words for cousin and brother. He didn't use the one for cousin when He meant brother. Second guess the Holy Spirit if you wish but it's dangerous and probably deadly.
>> Wow! You know which languages the Holy Spirit understands and restrict Him from speaking English? <<
Once again, you accuse me of saying something which would be nonsensical in context. I never said that the Holy Spirit can’t speak English. I said, in the context of inspiring the bible, that it didn’t, since English wasn’t around. And if you look at the history of the King James Bible, you can be quite certain that the Holy Spirit was NOT guiding the translators from error. Take for example, the first printing, called the Devil’s Bible, which omitted the “nots” from the Ten commandments, so that the people were told that they shall commit adultery, they shall murder, etc.
However, the Greek Church DOES maintain that the Holy Spirit DOES inspire people with perfect Koine Greek, so even though Jesus couldn’t’ve distinguished between cousin and brother, Mark must’ve meant “cousin” and not “brother.” That’s why they hold to the notion that James was Jesus’ half-brother, in spite of the highly unlikely coincidences and awkward situations that implies. (One awkward situation is that at the crucifixion Jesus told Mary of John, “Behold the son of yours,” which would have been an odd if Mary had a step-son — or especially another son of her own blood!)
But AGAIN: the Orthodox position is not regarded as heterodox. While Catholics regard it as unlikely, many faithful Catholics reflect it in their art. What is truly unbelievable is that Joseph would name all his sons after their older cousins, name a younger son after himself (Joses = Joseph), AND that Jesus’ YOUNGER brother would be referred to constantly by the early church as James the Elder.)