[quote="The Devil, post: 732683"]So, since all the many religious faiths which are currently popular are to be "respected", it follows that it's quite all right for these people to murder alleged adulterers, because their religion says they must? I understand the bible very well. It's a mass of contradictions made up from discordant documents. It makes absolutely nothing plain, and raises more questions than it answers. It is logically impossible to accept all parts of it as true. The whole thing is a transparent fraud. Explain how many children Mary gave birth to, for starters.[/QUOTE] 1) Your statement does not follow from mine. I made no such claim. 2. What is your evidence for your statement? 3. Mark 6:3 identifies four male siblings of Jesus as James, Joseph, Judas and Simon and refers to Jesus' sisters (plural but unspecified in number). Jesus is referred to as Mary's firstborn (Luke 2:7) so he was evidently the eldest of at least 7 children.