**or the Bible is lying - multiple times **
The Bible isn’t lying. Aunts and uncles and cousins often lived in a compound together. They were consider “brothers and sisters.”
Saint Paul speaks to the recipiemts of his many letters in these same words, “brothers and sisters.”
And I don’t think in either instance there was lying going on in the Bible. It’s just that some people have chosen to believe that Mary and Joseph had other children. Not so.
BTW, I sent you a brief FReepmail.
Taken at face value, Jesus had brothers and sisters from Mary; see Matthew 13:53-56. Jesus is in his hometown, and his townsfolk - the people he grew up with - questioned his teachings, saying he was the son of Mary, with brothers and sisters. In fact, his sisters were still with the townsfolk!
Now, if you want to assume that the Gospels meant cousins rather than actual brothers, you have to figure out why the word brother was actually used, especially in relation to Jesus' relation to Mary! Calling Jesus the son of Mary and that Mary and his brothers and sisters were together would seem to indicate a true brother/sister relationship, not cousins. All four Gospels (and Acts) agree, and all of them are quite explicit.
However there is no Biblical foundation for Mary never having another child that I know of; can you provide any supporting scripture that would indicate Mary didn't have more children? Not the Catechism, but actual scripture?
Seems this is a clear position where the Protestant and Orthodox churches are united in a clear position held since the founding of the Christianity and thus representing the true and accurate position of Christianity (especially since this position became Catholic dogma in the mid 1800s).