I am sure there are a few like me who like to have the whole picture before me amongst all this jibbering not all have extraordinary intellectual as some you claim to possess!
I am not refusing anything I just did a recap why should bother anyone...just move on its a recap!
All of us know there are two kinds of terms here just depends in the setting!
Are you not the Mother and than to says brother instead of brethern of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon?
To me this setting could mean blood line instead of spiriual bond!
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"male siblings from the same uterus."
How coarse of an expression!
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This reveasl of lot how sacred one really feels!
none of us were there during that time nor were the ones later on translating this into other languages, and there are no original documents, only a 3rd or 4th generation of the word!
So we do the best we can and be thankful for what we do have!
But everyday more is being discovered by those archaeologist for now it is the Word and common sense in some cases!
To debate and rationalizing over opinions has nothing to do with spiritual truth, its just the tradition of men trying to manitain as arbiter of truth!
Yes, it could. Or it could not. Every Catholic and every rational person on this thread realizes that. This is what happens when words can have different senses of meaning.
Explain this to the folks who insist that the word only has one meaning. And that suggesting another sense of the word is a plausible interpretation of the text is not to ignore Scripture.
"male siblings from the same uterus."
How coarse of an expression!
It is a clinical definition of exactly what is being talked about. It is not "coarse," by a long shot.
SD