Bible Discussion Thread

How do you know that James is the half brother of Jesus. What makes them half brothers.?

The spirit of the lord went over Mary

And caused Mary a virgin to conceive

And he was to be called Jesus

Jesus came thru the tribe of Judah

The order of Melchizedek

Who was Melchizedek

He had no father or mother and was a king and a priest and Abraham even tithed to him

He had no beginning or end

The only one who fits that description is Jesus

Just my thought

But the Holy Spirit caused Mary to conceive

God the father did the son and god the holy spiritual are one and the same

Jesus refers to god the father

So possible that Jesus did not share and genes with Mary and definitely not Joseph

How could Mary give birth to a son if all women have xx genes and men xy genes

The male determines sex of the child

If he gives x gene it's a girl

If he gives y gene it's a boy

So how could Mary give birth to a boy

Both Mary and Joseph were of the tribe Judah

Am I questioning god

No

I am a Christian

Mary was very special

Yes she was a virgin

Yes she gave birth to Jesus

Jesus came to earth as gif in the body of a human

Fully god and fully man

And came from heaven so he knew heaven like none other

John 1 and verse 1

I'm in beginning was the word the word was with god and the word was god

I use only King James Version of Bible

Other versions change words and words change meaning

So Jesus Is god

Only after birth of Jesus did Mary and

Joseph have children

So in one way that makes them half brothers

But again maybe they did not share any genes

Remember I am just thinking

My ignorance is much greater than my knowledge

I believe the king James of Bible is inerrant

Please just take my words with a grain of salt

Jesus was the only perfect one to walk the face of the earth

Sacrificed himself for our sins

The truth remains simple

Jesus sacrificed himself

For our sins

We are all sinners and in need of salvation

We all must know that

Ask Jesus/god

For forgiveness and repent of our sins

Ask for that free gift if salvation

He will and doeS

Hi Diane,

I've been away for a while so I'm not sure if you're responding to someone or you are asking this question for yourself? Either way, what leads me to believe that James is the half-brother of Jesus is that after Jesus was born, Mary and Joseph had other children. We know that Jesus had four half-brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas (Jude), and at least two half-sisters.

Paul says in Galatians 1:19, "But other of the apostles I didn't see, except for James the Lord's brother." This would be the Lord's half-brother, also the author of the book of James. What would make James the Lord's half-brother is that they shared the same mother, but different fathers.