“Loving someone must entail some devotion (I do not mean the religious sense).”
Then why bring it up, if you admit you are not talking about religious devotion? It can only serve to confuse the issue.
“So you don’t worship God?”
Again, it seems you are either trying to twist my words, or just can’t appreciate context. I was speaking in the context of those living loved ones we were discussing. I give no dulia, hyperdulia, or latria to THEM.
“But we already know, don’t we, that you can love more than one person and be devoted to more than one person at the same time. I doubt you would deny that you can love your wife and kids at the same time. The same goes for devotion.”
The issue is not whether I can or cannot, the issue is whether I should, and whether, if I try to be religuously devoted to God and men at the same time, I would be able to give got the devotion he deserves and commands. I am saying I could not.
“So you don’t honor scripture then? If you honor scripture as being more than just a book, then you are not giving all religious devotion to God alone no are you?”
No, I don’t offer any religious devotion to the physical object. What it contains however, is the Word of God, and Christ is the Word, so whatever devotion I show to the Word, I am showing to God Himself. There is no dilution. Nice try, though.
I would add that most of the prayers used when saying the Rosary come straight from the Bible.
The two prayers used throughout are the “Our Father,” which Jesus himself instructed us to say, and the “Hail Mary,” more than half of which is taken directly from the words of the Archangel when he appeared to Mary: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.” The prayer adds the words Jesus to the biblical text, but I don’t think that is anything more than filling in the obvious.
Each decade ends with “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be forevermore.” I think that’s unexceptionally in accordance with the Bible, too.
And the Rosary starts with the Apostles’ Creed, which I think most orthodox Protestants accept.
Also, you might take a look at the Wedding Feast of Cana. Jesus was not yet ready for his Public Life, but his mother came to him and asked him to change to water into wine. He agreed to do so, although the time was not yet. And he told the servants: “Do whatever she tells you.”