You wrote:
“I never said it was my own. YOU SAID IT WAS MY OWN, NOT ME.”
Oh, so you admitted it was someone else’s? R-I-G-H-T.
“And because you said so it is so ? This is getting to be predictable.”
So taking someone else’s stuff and passing it off as your own isn’t pathetic.
“Of course you have not dealt with the argument. But I am giving you a chance because I want to hear what you have to say. Is it forthcoming ??”
Since you clearly didn’t read the article I linked to but instead passed off someone else’s work as your own I see no reason to respond to what wasn’t yours but you passed off as yours.
YOU WROTE
Oh, so you admitted it was someone else’s? R-I-G-H-T.
Yes, but his argument conforms with mine, he said it better.
And you have not even remotely addressed the argument that we both agreed with.
YOU SAID:
So taking someone else’s stuff and passing it off as your own isn’t pathetic.
I never said it was my own, I said I agreed with it. YOU are the one saying that I am passing it off as my own.
And again, you have NOT addressed the argument.
YOU SAID:
Since you clearly didn’t read the article I linked to but instead passed off someone else’s work as your own I see no reason to respond to what wasn’t yours but you passed off as yours.
I did read the article, and the article’s arguments do not convince.
It FORCES the plain meaning of the word — brother - into something else. THE NORMAL AND LITERAL MEANING IS PHYSICAL BROTHER. It cannot be “cousin” ( because there is another word for cousin and it was not used ), and it cannot be brethren in the faith because the Bible states that “even his brothers did not believe in him”.
And it does not satisfactorily deal with the issue of Joseph having sexual union with Mary ( He did not have union with Mary UNTIL the birth of Jesus ).
Elsewhere the Bible also mentions that someone said to Jesus : “Your mother and brothers are here to see you.”
Jesus’ response was ( and I am paraphrasing): “who are my mother and brothers? Those who believe in me and follow me are my mother and brothers”.
The plain reading of the text is simple and straightforward -— Mary was clearly Jesus’ mother and His other siblings were with her. Jesus then drew a distinction between the spiritual and physical -— those who believe in Him are also his mother and brother ( not only his mother Mary and his siblings ).
You would like to complicate things in order to support a theory which came centuries later.