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>>Seriously, you were unaware of this fact of prenatal human development?<<

Do females have a Y chromosome at conception? Do males?

Just to bring it back to the point at hand, what do you say to Elizabeth' declaring while being filled by the Holy Spirit that Mary was the mother of her (Elizabeth's) Lord in Elizabeth's context as the wife of a Jewish Temple priest near the beginning of the first millennium? When Elizabeth said, "my Lord" was she referring to:

A. Her husband
B. King Herod
C. Yahweh, the Lord God of Israel, creator of heaven and earth.

And in the context of the first chapter of Luke where "Lord" had already been used by the writer to refer to the Lord God of Israel before Elizabeth's salutation of Mary and where "Lord" was subsequently used by both Mary and Zechariah to refer to the Lord God of Israel, could the answer to the question above conceivably anything other than C? If so, how, without doing violence to the plain language used by Elizabeth? Or was the writer just a clutz who didn't really think about what he was writing and how it could appear to support the claim made by another gospel writer that the boy would be called Immanuel, meaning "God with us"?

I think CB’s position is reduced to it doesn’t matter whether Elizabeth, or Matthew, Mark, Luke and John said Mary is Jesus’ mother. Only the red letter scripture counts.

>>When Elizabeth said, "my Lord" was she referring to:<<

Teacher, master, or any of the other translations of Lord. Elohim is a judge and one of the designations of God’s actions but was also used for earthly judges.