(April 22, 2013 at 8:11 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Luke: Mary was pregnant with Jesus when the first census was issued while Quirinius was a procurator (hegemon) in Syria (8-7 BC).
Mark: Jesus was born while Herod the Great was King (sometime before Herod’s death in 4 BC.)
These two statements are not contradictory and are still true to what the Biblical texts say.
Did you actually type that with a straight face?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
