Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Iscool
But fortunately for we bible believers, the Greek language knows the difference between a brother and a cousin

Evidently it doesn't know the difference between a nephew and a brother, though, because Abraham calls Lot his "brother" in the Genesis of the Greek Septuagint just like he does in the Hebrew ... but we later find out that Lot is really his brother's son.

And it evidently doesn't know the difference between "brother" and "half-brother," because the Gospels call Philip the Tetrarch Herod's "brother," while secular history records that he was really Herod's half-brother.

And since it doesn't know the difference between brother and half-brother, how do you know that Jesus' "brothers" weren't children of Joseph's from an earlier marriage?*

I mean, until you find that elusive verse that calls them "sons of Mary". You are going to find that verse for us, aren't you?

(*In fact, the parentage of some of Jesus' "brothers" is identified in Scripture for us already. James the Less and Joses are identified as "brothers of the Lord" and their parentage is specified ... and they aren't sons of Mary and Joseph.)

225 posted on 12/05/2006 3:12:36 PM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 224 | View Replies ]


To: Campion
And since it doesn't know the difference between brother and half-brother, how do you know that Jesus' "brothers" weren't children of Joseph's from an earlier marriage?*

Well I don't...And I also don't know if Mary preferred Pistaccio ice cream over Rocky Road...

Is that really your argument???

229 posted on 12/05/2006 3:27:25 PM PST by Iscool (Anybody tired??? I have a friend who says "Come unto me, and I'll give you rest"...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 225 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson