Here are your own words again...
No matter how much importance you try to stress on the definition words, Mary could not have been pregnant with Jesus in 8-7 BC and then Jesus was born in 4 BC. Or are you now going to argue that Mary was pregnant for 3 years?
Statler Waldorf Wrote:Luke: Mary was pregnant with Jesus when the first census was issued while Quirinius was a procurator (hegemon) in HSyria (8-7 BC).
Mark: Jesus was born while Herod the Great was King (sometime before Herod’s death in 4 BC.)
No matter how much importance you try to stress on the definition words, Mary could not have been pregnant with Jesus in 8-7 BC and then Jesus was born in 4 BC. Or are you now going to argue that Mary was pregnant for 3 years?
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