But who/what is THE CHRIST? The Jewish Scriptures are not at all clear about that.. The New Testament is an effort to show by those Scriptures that the coming of Jesus and his deeds were foretold in Jewish Scripture. The Jews look at those same Scriptures and contend that they see no such thing. Now their canon of Scriptures omits many books, such as Wisdom, but you accept that same canon as your own. So if you and they both look at the same words and SEE different truths about Jesus, then they will be no more convinced by the testimony of the New Testament than you can be convinced otherwise. They come from a long tradition of interpretation.You come from another.
Yours, I submit, because you reject Catholic tradition, is even briefer, not even going back to the Reformation, for they had much more reverence for Mary than you have.
But that is not really what I want to talk about here. You should not dismiss out of hand what has happened over a period of two thousand years, especially the Arian controversy. For at bottom, it was a battle over the interpretation of the Bible. WHO IS JESUS? Arius claimed that the Bible says that Jesus is divine, but is not God. The Church rejected this interpretation of Scripture. Arius put his Scripture as proof. The Church disagreed. The Nicaean Creed is a statement of that disagreement and a positive statement saying who they thought Jesus is. Two interpretation of Scripture clashing. If you don’t study them carefully, you will think that they are quibbling. But they are profoundly different. IS the Nicaean formula one you agree with or one you reject? No point in talking about Mary unless we first agree who Christ is. To both of us, she is just a creature of God.