You have been well indoctrinated by the Catholic church. It seens that your own members are not sure whether it is Mary or Jesus that was immaculately conceived. I do not care what the Catholic church teaches, the scriptures say otherwise. The word translated "brothers" in Matt 13:55 means "from the same womb." There is an entirely different word for cousin which is what John the Baptist was to Jesus.
>You have been well indoctrinated by the Catholic church. >It seens that your own members are not sure whether it is >Mary or Jesus that was immaculately conceived. I do not >care what the Catholic church teaches, the scriptures say >otherwise. The word translated "brothers" in Matt 13:55 >means "from the same womb." There is an entirely different >word for cousin which is what John the Baptist was to >Jesus.
There are no less then three words for the word brother in the NT, and "adelphos" does not literally translate to "of the same womb", but that is based on 2 semesters of Grad level NT Greek.