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To: annalex; presently no screen name
That is not a proof of the existence of the mythical biological brothers even on its face. It is a rhetorical question, which only proves that Jesus had relatives close to him in age that might appear to an outsider as brothers.

Let's stick to your original claim which I refuted with Scripture.

She did not have any other children. "Brothers" of Christ are indeed mentioned, but, curious thing, every time a "brother" of Jesus is mentioned by name, his mother also is mentioned and she is not Mary.

MATTHEW - NAB
13:55 Is he not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?

Brothers of Christ are listed and His mother is Mary

One thing at a time please.

1. Defend your claim.
2. Then divert to the standard Apologetics merry-go-round.

1,537 posted on 11/12/2010 9:58:54 AM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: annalex
"Let's stick to your original claim which I refuted with Scripture."

You will not get anywhere arguing with those who validate their own arguments. Absent any standard or authority other than their own whims each is his own each is his own denomination, each is his own pope and each his own magisterium relying on notions confused with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

As Ayn Rand so accurately stated: “[An] error is committed by the man who declares that since man must be guided by his own independent judgment, any action he chooses to take is moral if he chooses it. One’s own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose his actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation: only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one’s choices.”

1,541 posted on 11/12/2010 11:07:32 AM PST by Natural Law (lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi)
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To: OLD REGGIE; presently no screen name
And there were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joseph, and Salome: (Mk 15:40 )

It is a Mary allright, but a different one.

2,486 posted on 11/17/2010 5:27:53 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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