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>> “I don’t understand the bickering on this forum between Catholics and protestants. All who believe in the one true Judeo-Christian God are welcome to post here.” <<

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Perhaps the answer to your quandry lies in the identity of the ‘God’ each group worships.

You have taken the assumption that we all worship the same God, but simply reading the posts of the various parties does show differences in the basic attrributes of our Gods.

Jews and the majority of protestants voice a belief in a God who left us his inerrant and complete word, and noted therein (Deuteronomy 4, and REvelation 22) that nothing was to be added to or taken away from that word.

Catholics, on the other hand operate on an apparent assumption that the word is incomplete, and in places completely wrong (the many places that call out Mary’s children) and requires special secret additions to the word that were only given orally.

How can those two sets of assumprions occupy the same space peacefully?

ES, you're a good person, but I'm afraid that there isn't as much confluence between Judaism and Protestantism as so many seem to think. Judaism does indeed have an official, authoritative oral interpretive tradition. Since its Bible consists of only consonants, it would be impossible to read without the vowels, punctuation, and commentary provided by that Tradition. And the words in Deuteronomy don't mean quite what you seem to think. The religious authorities are authorized to make their own laws on their own authority, but it is forbidden to attribute the laws of the Sages with the laws of the Torah (which is basically what Eve did in the Garden). That's why there are so many rabbinic disputes about what is midde'Orayta' (from the Torah) and what is middeRabbanan (from the Sages). There are many such discussions and they are important.

And the big mistake all chrstians make about Judaism is that it is just pre-incarnation chrstianity, or chrstianity without J*sus. It is no such thing, which is why chrstians simply cannot seem to understand why Jews reject J*sus. The very mission, role, and even status of Mashiach are totally different in one than in the other.

Even the most pro-Jewish chrstian only knows the Hebrew Bible through a lifelong assumption of the authority of the "new testament." Without this assumption, distinctions become much more clear.

The Jews based a significant portion of their religion on the use of tradition. Jesus at times criticizes the extent of this reliance; he does not however, criticize the reliance. When talking about the Pharisees, he comments that they teach with authority even though they are hypocrites.

What Catholics teach about Mary’s children is that they are spiritual children, not biological children.