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Because the crowd was wrong about Joseph being Jesus' father, does not mean the word adelphos is used wrongly by the crowd in conveying their meaning ... and their meaning was a biological relationship. Since you are confused by my previous analogy, let me try again: Two of my grandsons look...

If I called called someone a pediatrician when they are actually a geriatrician ... it would not alter the meaning of the word "pediatrician".

It's a slow day :clmSmlx

Mat 13:55-56 speaks of close familial relationships - mother, father, brothers, sisters ... so don't go off on a tangent about "national, communal, apostolic, and redefined family" ... that is the strawman argument you keep repeating.

When asked to demonstrate one place where Matthew uses adelphos for a familial relationship other than biological sibling, you go blithely ahead giving four examples that are not familial relationships. That is a strawman argument.

In spite of torturing the text mercilessly, you have yet to demonstrate one place where Matthew uses adelphos for a familial relationship other than biological sibling.

Those who make threats against the President, or carry out attacks, are just the surface level of the much deeper cause which is people stirring up hatred for the President ... sadly this is even evident in some threads in CB.

From the article: "Malinen, who has issued bearish warnings for the US economy for the past several years, is in the minority on Wall Street, where most forecasters are expecting growth to hold up and the AI boom to last for at least several more years. Economists at the Atlanta Fed are...

It is so easy for us to see other people's sins as being very much worse than our own. Those who are most hostile towards Trump do so because of personal dislike. That does not seem like a very Christian way to evaluate a president. A better way would be to ask whether his policies are good...

It is interesting that our Left wing, government funded, national news outlet here in Australia reported this Mr Machchhar [the stabbed pilot] said that during those difficult moments, he recited the Hanuman Chalisa, a Hindu devotional hymn dedicated to Lord Hanuman and traditionally recited...

Notice who is speaking in Mat 13:55 ... the words are spoken by unbelieving people in Nazareth who regarded Joseph as Jesus' biological father. Context is crucial. In the first three references, Jesus is talking about His followers - His spiritual brothers & sisters. The word adelphos is...

I'll take that as a no you can't. The other issues you raise have been refuted in this thread and in another thread "Who were the brothers of Jesus" where posts very similar to yours were made by Soul.og. I have nothing further to add to the refutations previously proffered.

So you do not know who the men are named in Mat 13:55-56? The context is Matthew's Gospel. familial relationships ... and it means biological brother ... more than a dozen times in Matthew's Gospel All those things have been refuted so try to focus on one thing at a time. Initially I...

The whole point of your adelphos argument is that it means cousin in Mat 13:55 ... so the discussion is about familial relationships (sheesh, I can't believe I have to tell you that!) And you have still not posted a single verse that refutes the claim: Matthew NEVER uses the word adelphos to...

I apologize for over-estimating your intellectual agility ... I see there is a need to express things more simply - Matthew NEVER uses the word adelphos to identify a familial relationship other than biological brother.

And you have still not identified even one example where adelphos identifies a familial relationship other than biological brother. ... but don't let that stop you from trying ... we all know the Marian dogmas collapse without it. PS .. Sorry, I did not realize I needed your permission "to...

I've noticed that Catholic apologists have their own version of 'name it and claim it' - It is not an altar because we call it a 'shrine'. It is not worship because we call it 'veneration'. It is not bread & wine because we call it 'body & blood'. Mary did not have children because we say she...

I am not going to address your long post because it is full of strawman arguments ... whether deliberate or based on lack of comprehension I do not know. The fact is you cannot find one example in Matthew's Gospel where adelphos is used to identify the relationship between named individuals...

I referenced Koperski to show you that you cannot rely on extra-biblical sources ... sometimes they are right, sometimes they are wrong ... the Bible is the only infallible source of authority. The fact that the disciples had names is not very convincing ... everyone has a name ... to state...

The only interest I have in what Koperski said about Hegesippus is that it shows appealing to extra-biblical sources is not a persuasive argument because there can be as much debate about their meaning as about the Bible itself. 1, 2 & 3 ... ok ... then you make a wild claim that contradicts...