"We see that expansive usage throughout the scripture and it is still common in the Middle East and Greece today."
Indeed it is. My cousins and I often refer to each other as brother or sister. And cousins in the generation before us as aunt or uncle and there is absolutely no distinction of degrees of kinship, like 3rd or 2nd cousins. The overall unit really is first "family" which can be a huge group and then "patriotis", a word I can't really translate but maybe Alex can. It is like calling someone a family member but it really refers more to someone from one's family's region and it is very like a term of kinship. Anglo Saxon or Western European notions of kinship just don't apply east of the Adriatic and so far as I know, they never did.
Homeboy.
Domachi (as is "domacha rakiya"), homewgrown!
Also for the sake of clarity...this truly is the first time ever in my entire life that I've encountered the teaching that Mary did not physically deliver Christ through her birth canal. I think it is for a lot of us.
If that makes us anathema, so be it.
But, I don't think God is like that with doctrine.
I also think Jesus was delivered naturally. The scriptures seem to indicate that, and the only way to get to a contrary view is by imposing an external criteria upon the scripture.