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I'm not making you repeat yourself. You are choosing to do that, ad nauseam. Take a look at 1 Cor. 15 and see if it says this: 5 He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some...

How many times do you plan to copy and paste the exact same thing? By my count, you are now up to seven.

That's certainly true. He's the Boss. And if His justice is inscrutable, so be it.

But we have already beaten this to death! I've told you in Post #54 why I don't think Paul considered James the brother of the Lord one of the Twelve. You disagree. Fine. What else can I do for you?

I am reminded of Alan Watts' question in The Supreme Identity (1972), "What opportunity for salvation was there for Chinese, Incas, and Australians while Jesus was living in Palestine, in a world absolutely out of communication with theirs? Surely, if it is true that God so loves the world, and...

God's justice doesn't match our notions of justice, and is quite inscrutable to us. He punishes children and grand children and great grand children for the sins of a parent. Ex. 34:7, Num. 14:18, Deut. 5:9.

Not again! What do you want from me? What's your goal here?

It means that the Pope thinks the matter is unsettled. You don't. He does. So do I. What is the point of continuing this discussion? All you do is copy and paste the same thing over and over again, as though repetition adds strength to the argument.

I was just quoting Pope Benedict when I said "Among experts, the question of the identity of these two figures with the same name, James son of Alphaeus and James "the brother of the Lord", is disputed." Take it up with him. Laugh out loud in his face...

Q.E.D. Oh, that "winning" feeling! Among experts, the question of the identity of these two figures with the same name, James son of Alphaeus and James "the brother of the Lord", is disputed.

Where are the passages that tell us JESUS had no children? Where are the passages that tell us flying Unicorns don't exist?

This is the third time I am seeing the same thing from you. Do you see any point in continuing the discussion? Smh. Hmph. It confirms my suspicion that you get your jollies from some kind of "winning" feeling. I don't care whether James "the brother of the Lord" was one of the Twelve. He...

We are just retreading the same ground now. Let's just put our disagreement over Paul's intent on Galatians 1:18-19 (the only thing I cared to discuss, although you seem bent on expanding the discussion) on the shelf. I think all of this is somewhat academic, and hardly matters to the Catholic...

The only reference to Galatians in your Post #4 list of ECF quotes is this one for Eusebius: ""James […] surnamed the Just [...] bishop of the church of Jerusalem. This James was called the brother of the Lord" and "Paul also makes mention of the same James the Just, where he writes, 'Other of...

Why would I? They affirm what I do not deny: that James the "brother of the Lord" was not an actual child of the Lord's mother Mary. I have never challenged that thesis. But the argument that Paul, in the first chapter of Galatians, considered James the "brother of the Lord" one of the Twelve...

I've addressed the ARGUMENT you made that the context of Gal. 1:18-19 indicates James the brother of the Lord was, in Paul's view, one of the original twelve. That contextual argument is not EVIDENCE. I have nothing more to say on the subject.

I'm not going to address it any further. I've addressed the part of it that matters to me.

I have read it in full. Let's clear this up. Evidence is the text of the writing. Argument is the inference to be drawn from context of the text. One of the rungs of your ladder is the contextual inferences you draw -- and I do not draw -- from Gal. 1:18-19. So we have presented different...

You were also being presumptuous. Why are you on this site? Do you get your jollies by "winning" an argument, or are you here to learn and share ideas? Your thesis that Mary had no other children has a bunch of rungs in its ladder. Any rung that fails will undermine your thesis. One of...

That was uncalled for.