[CynicalBear]

>>That isn’t what they were saying. They were arguing that adelphos could also mean cousin.<<

Well I've heard both but there is no "cousin" in the link you gave. Trying to get "cousin" out of adelphos is stretching beyond reason.

[cuban leaf]

Well I’ve heard both but there is no “cousin” in the link you gave.

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True, but it could be a subset of the second defintion. ;-)

And I strongly agree with you that it is a stretch beyond reason.

When I first heard of this belief, here on FR, I realized that the reason they were making such a stretch was because some other belief they had depended on those not being His brothers. I’ve since seen a lot of that sort of thing from others as well as myself: Interpreting a scripture in a goofy way because if it means what the plain language means, some other belief I have has just been skewered or called into question.