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Then again, his older brother James makes a new question.

Ahhh, a little "pot stirring, eh?) First, I don't have much of a problem with the "historical record". While I understand there isn't any any "screaming physical evidence", there is enough ancedotal and oral testimony to satisfy most historians, that is, those without an "axe to grind". The part in which you allude to Christ's "brothers", is more interesting. It is pretty clear to me, from even a cursory reading of the New Testament, that Jesus had brothers and sisters. Albeight, I would call them "half brothers". The entire "virgin" birth thing was lifted practically whole cloth from other religious traditions from around the area. And the silly "perpetuall" virgin thing only came around centuries later when "sex" was seen as "dirty" or at best, a neccessary evil for women. It's pretty simple for me, a practicing Christian. God implanted a "divine seed" into Mary and from that Jesus was born. Afterwards, her and Joseph had a perfectly normal sex life that resulted in more children, her's and Joseph's. The whole "peputual virginity thing was tacked on hundreds of years later to satisfy and reinforce Mary's later importance outside of canonical (read Catholic) New Testamant appearances.

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