Did Jesus have brothers and sisters born of Mary

As for the use in English of the word "until":
when a parent says to their children, "Be well behaved until I return.", is it required of the children by the parent to misbehave after the parent returns ?

until sets a point and time. So Mary was kept a virgin until the birth of Christ..Point and time.

Yes and no. It points to the time that she was a virgin but it does not point to a future time when she was not a virgin.

Like Theklas examples of telling kids when to behave.

"Behave until I come home." Does not point to a time where a child can misbehave after a parent comes home.

there's a big difference here.

parents always expect there kids to behave. being a virgin was never an expectation placed on Mary. therefor, "until" Jesus was born, would logically mean that they waited for that time to come before having sex.

Peace.

It wasn't an expectation placed on her either by anybody (human anyway...I'm guessing God chose her for this unique place in the giving birth to Our Salvation, Christ). It was her CHOICE. She CHOSE to be celebate the rest of her life.

I don't know if those who aren't of the ancient church(es) can understand this. It seems they have a problem understanding being chaste through a monastic type of life.

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I believe in one God, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not created, of one essence with the Father through Whom all things were made.
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried;
And He rose on the third day, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father;
And He will come again with glory to judge the living and dead. His kingdom shall have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Creator of life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke through the prophets.
In one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the age to come.
Amen.

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I believe in one God, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages; Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten, not created, of one essence with the Father through Whom all things were made.
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became man.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried;
And He rose on the third day, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father;
And He will come again with glory to judge the living and dead. His kingdom shall have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Creator of life, Who proceeds from the Father, Who together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke through the prophets.
In one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the age to come.
Amen.

Grammatically and logically, "until" does not require a reversal of condition/action. The word refers to a particular span of time.

If the claim is made that the doctrine cannot be Biblically supported, then absent Biblical evidence, it cannot be said that the opposite position is Biblical.