[GirlShortstop]

I am comfortable in my belief that Mary is considered by Catholics to be Divine

I dig simplicity;  I find it right smack in your statement, jonboy.   Your **non-Catholic** belief doesn't amount to squat to Catholics; it doesn't make it Catholic belief.  That's the reason we're not jonboyists or any other YOPIOS-come-lately-ists.  Let's be sure that's clear:  your (and the others' - those that've rejected what Catholics have shared) belief is not Catholic belief.  Pretty simple, isn't it?

[jonboy]

I dig simplicity; I find it right smack in your statement, jonboy. Your **non-Catholic** belief doesn't amount to squat to Catholics; it doesn't make it Catholic belief. That's the reason we're not jonboyists or any other YOPIOS-come-lately-ists. Let's be sure that's clear: your (and the others' - those that've rejected what Catholics have shared) belief is not Catholic belief. Pretty simple, isn't it?

Some people don't get it when someone is trying to merely make a point by imitating someone else. If you look at what JulieRNR21 said:

Jon.....I do not feel threatened. I am just not interested in trying to refute your interpretation of those scriptures.
Your opinion is apparently based on your own intense study of scriptures which is admirable. I am comfortable with my Faith and have no desire to enter into a dialogue over those scriptures or any others you might present.

I think all believers ought to be interested in honest dialogue, that's why it bothered my when she in essence shut me out. To illustrate what it would have been like to have been on the receiving end of such a statement I made a similar statement (not meant as truth but done to illustrate why such a mentality is counter-productive). This was the statement.

The response by Jonboy that wasn't: I am comfortable in my belief that Mary is considered by Catholics to be Divine and have no desire to get into a dialogue about those traditions or any other scriptures that you might present.

I never said that to be my belief and attitude, I said that to point out that had it been it would have been wrong. I assume that you honestly mistook what I said. I hope that this clarifys it.