I've heard since childhood and believe that God created each of us for a purpose within His Plan and that, heart and soul, we are created to be a place for Him and His spirit to dwell, to be, to live, to rest...not sure of the right words...and that is what our bodies being a temple means.
Unfortunately, not all keep their temple pure and clean such that God's Spirit is welcome. Some worse than others, but some better and some are even better still. Then there was Mary...
Your words are correct and emphasize the correct interpretation. She was created, we all are, but you're right, Mary was chosen. And I should have just kept my mouth shut until my understanding could catch up with it.
Thanks to you both for helping such a learner in the slow lane like me, with my apologies for my having swerved into the fast lane right in front of you.
With so many different interpretations, and each one is absolutely correct and all the others wrong, it's hard not to be confused.
I think this is a good test...The Catholic religion says to believe us (their Magisterium) because God told them the truth to pass out onto us...
A Baptist church will say, 'this is what we believe but don't take our word for it...Search the scriptures (like the scriptures tell you to do), the actual words of God that you know whether we are telling the truth'...