Indeed. There is a lot on this thread based on Argument from Silence. There is no mention of siblings at the Nativity, nor in the Temple at 12 years old. There is a reason for that...
Such things are not relevant to anyone’s salvation or salvation history in general. It also takes attention off the Message by all those people (Dan Brown, et al) who are more concerned with the Bloodline, as if we worship specific genetic markers and not His divinity.
Divinity is not in the DNA, which is of the body. It is philosophical / theological. Assuming you could get hold of the the actual blood spilled at the Crucifixion or if it is on the Shroud of Turin, there is nothing there you could clone or splice into someone else to make them divine.
All these philological discussions about brothers versus cousins are nothing more than flights of fancy.
Born of a Virgin?
Indeed. There is a lot on this thread based on Argument from Silence.
The Catholics want to prove that Mary was a perpetual virgin, they most likely believe it or they would not try to prove it
The protestants want to prove the Catholics wrong so as to say you can not be the successors of Peter other wise how could you be so wrong?
Both sides uses assumptions which proves nothing.
And I agree it has nothing to do with salvation, Jesus said “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6), not his mother, his brothers or half brothers or step brothers or sisters.
Mathew 4
4 Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
What Jesus said came from God and is the final word.
Some of the thing Jesus said are hard to understand but the things he plainly told us to do are fairly simple.