This is your theory. You still haven't listed any siblings of Christ.
The thread eagerly awaits their names, and your evidence. I really hope that your evidence doesn't rely on a simplistic English translation of adelphos.
I *never claimed* that I did so. You *claimed* there are no other siblings. Demonstrate your claim is true.
This is your theory. You still haven't listed any siblings of Christ.
Actually, no. I did not claim they existed nor didn't exist. It was *you* who claimed *there are no siblings.*
That leaves you alone with a truth claim to support. Have at it, or we just disregard it as your opinion. Nothing wrong with opinions. Just don't claim it is Biblical.
The thread eagerly awaits their names, and your evidence. I really hope that your evidence doesn't rely on a simplistic English translation of adelphos.
From the Bible that Catholics claim their church wrote, and used the Greek word for *brothers* instead of the Greek word for *relative*.
Matthew 13:55 “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?”
Mark 6:2-3 And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?”... “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?”
Why is it so important that Mary be perpetually virgin?
How does that affect our salvation?
How does that affect our relationship with God in Christ?
Does it affect the atonement and the work of redemption that Jesus worked on the cross?
What ina the world other language would you suggest we use instead of English???
There are countless Greek Scholars who are also English scholars who translate these words...
And even if they all made a mistake with brother and kin and cousin for adelphos they did not make a mistake for the word translated as sister...Sister can only mean sister...So if Jesus had no other brothers we can be confident that he at least had sisters...