The Catholic arguments against what Scripture truly depicts as the biological brothers and sisters of Christ are flimsy and wrong and they know it. They claim that there wasn’t words in the original text to differentiate between brother and kin of another relation? Baloney. Then they claim that these could be half brothers and sisters. Truth is, what Scripture surely and truly says does not fit what the Catholic church professes and teaches about Jesus and Mary. Nothing anywhere in the Scriptures lends itself to Mary and Joseph not having a normal marriage.
Tsk, tsk. How childish.
the word
adelphoi may refer to male relatives that one is not a descendant of and that are not descendant from one (such as a blood brother, step-brother, nephew, uncle, cousin, etc.) or non-relatives such as neighbors, fellow workers, co-religionists, and friends.
Because of this broad usage, we can be sure that the 120 “brothers” in Acts 1:15 did not have the same mother. Neither did Lot and his uncle Abraham, who were called “brothers” (Gen. 11:26-28, 29:15).
The reason relatives were called brothers or sisters was because in Hebrew, there was no word for cousin, nephew, or uncle. So the person was referred to as simply a “brother.”
Now, does Matthew’s use of “until” mean what you says it does? Nope. The Greek word for “until” (
heos) does not imply that Mary had marital relations after the birth of Christ. In 2 Samuel 6:23, we read that Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child “until” the day of her death. (Rest assured that she didn’t have any children after that day, either.) Hebrews 1:13 and 1 Timothy 4:13 are similar examples.
These things were taken for granted by the early Christians, who were familiar with the biblical languages and who knew that Mary was a lifelong virgin.
Heck, one can see that the degredation of Mary is a liberal, revisionist reaction thought up recently, in the 1800’s.
Even Protestants accepted her perpetual virginity before.
And now, SIA, where is your rebuttal? You have none. You shouldn’t rely on your private interpretation of Scripture. Don’t you know the Bible condemns such private interpretations?
I dare you to attempt to answer the above points.
