I don’t call my adopted sister anything but my sister. If people looked at her they would know that we are not blood related, she is African/American, but people still don’t say, “Your adopted sister wants to talk to you.” they call her my sister and she is.
My nephew has a half brother. No one says to him, “Hey, your dad and Half Brother are outside”, they say, “Your dad and brother are outside.”
What you have quoted proves nothing in the scheme of things.
That is Jesuitical !
Welllllllllllll, Dear Heart,
the plethera of rationalized convoluted Scripture manglings we see so many RC’s offer on that score
SURE
does
NOT
PROVE anything of any substance to Prottys I know.
If anything, it convinces us all the more emphatically that taking Scripture at face value wherever remotely possible is the best and most accurate, God blessed route.