Is this a contradiction to the other passages referring to Him as the “Son of God” or the “Son of Man” or the “Son of David” or the “Son of Mary”? Was Jesus biologically and viscerally the “Son of Joseph” and not conceived by and through the power of the Holy Spirit, where God planted into Mary’s womb a unique once in a life-time sperm cell of supernatural, exceptional and inimitable creation by God the Father? Why was not the first Adam born in this fashion? Is it because of the absence of a created woman first, or did not God know how to create a woman first in order for this same kind of unique sperm cell of the Second Adam be planted into her?  The answer to this question and others is sufficiently and clearly found in our biblically supported and held faith that says that the first before fall sinless Adam was created and his seed became corruptible, but the ever sinless second Adam, Word of God, the incorruptible seed, was born, divinely conceived and delivered by a Virgin:

-          “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.” (1Cor 15:47)

-          “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God that lives and abides for ever.” (1Pet 1:23)

When it comes to the composition of Jesus immediate family, relatives, friends and associates, the New Testament is somehow silent, except for scattered and sometime incoherent information in introducing the names of His brothers but not His sisters, Elizabeth, Virgin Mary’s cousin, with her husband Zacharias and their son John the Baptist, and Mary the sister of the Virgin Mary, with her husband Cleophas and their two sons, Jesus’ friend Lazarus and his two sisters, the names of few of His apostles, disciples and followers, etc.

For those hoisting the sword of excommunication over the heads of believers and non-believers alike while ushering and accentuating one guilt trip after another accompanied by threats of rotting in Hell, let us thoroughly and truthfully study the proper use and meaning of these two Greek words, as evidenced by the repeated biblical backing in the use, connotation and application, supported by concordances’ extensive discourses and reputable dictionaries’ definitions is: “adelphos”: properly, literally and/or figuratively maternal or paternal brother from the womb, equivalent to the Aramaic “’Ach” (pl.‘Achavah) and the Hebrew “Akh” (pl. Akh-av-aw), which properly means brothers of the same stock and blood, as male children of the same parents, (Matt, 1:2; 14:3); or as male descendants of one of the parents, (Act 7:23,26; Heb 7:5 and the verses that speak of Jesus and His Mother); or male children of the same mother, (Mat 13:55; 1Cr 9:5; Gal 1:19); It is the same word that is used for Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, and for James, the brother of John the beloved, and for Philip, the brother of Herod, respectively in Matt. 10:2 & 14:3. More of the same is in Matt. 1:11.

It is figuratively used in the New Testament to mean brethren in Christ, as having one Father, the Godhead in accordance with the prayer “Our Father…” and by the merits earned for us by Christ. We find the same scenario referring to the brotherhood of apostles and disciples and followers of Christianity in the New Testament books. (It was used repeated in Acts and the epistles and James 1:9). And “Jesus said unto her: “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them: “I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God” (John 20:17)