Yet, despite the fact that she’s “of no particular importance beyond carrying her child into the world” the Holy Spirit wanted Mary to experience the Pentecost. Surely she is more important than you say. Why does the Holy Spirit mention her by name as a member in the room? This one fact makes her more important than you stated. Now add in all the other things we know, through Holy Spirit inspired Scripture, about Mary. She matters a great deal.
Mary is a stumbling block for so many. She is foreshadowed in the Old Testament: see Ex 25: 10-16 and Luke 1: 38-41, 56.
Mary had no other children. Brothers is a word also used for cousins. In Acts 1: 12-15 we see that J. had over 100 “brothers.” Four men are named as “brothers of the Lord” but we know that two of them (James and Joseph) were actually sons of Mary, the wife of Cleophas (Mt. 27:56, John 19: 25). In Genesis 29:15 Laban calls his uncle Jacob his “brother.” This is a common usage of the word for relatives. In John 20: 17-18, we see that “brethren” is used to mean disciples.
It’s really an illogical stretch, when one considers all these facts, to insist that Jesus had brothers who were sons of his mother Mary.
I see Mary as the Abraham of the New Testament.
> “Mary is a stumbling block for so many.”
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Mary is a fatal stumbling block for all who worship and pray to her. The worship of Mary will send millions to eternal separation from God.
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> “Mary had no other children”
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You are in deep denial, and your assertions are feeble. You twist and turn with defense mechanisms in defiance of the Lord’s deliberately placed proof of her having given birth to numerous children; an important step in her life that the Lord provided to keep his Elect from being deceived.
If you were a reader of the “received text,” you would not waste your time with this feckless persuit, since the proof is so broad and piercing.
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