"The reason it didn't take you hundreds of years to figure it out is because the Church had already defined it for non-Catholics."
Again, I speak for myself. It's CLEARLY in the Bible for ANYONE to read and accept. THAT is what I did. I didn't look to the "church". I simply read it in the Bible. I NEVER take the word of man to heart. I have to see the truth myself.
"It didn't take the Church hundreds of years to figure it out either. They already knew it, but had to set down definitions to combat heresies, such as the Arian heresy."
Heresies will happen regardless of what "is written". It is God who inspired the writing of the Bible by particular people - NOT the "church".
Marker, just a place marker