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Christianity has always acknowledged that Jesus is God.

Quite true, but not the point of the article. The title of God does not attach to anybody mortal. Jesus was/is fully God. Mary in Scripture was chosen as the vessel to bring Him into the human world.

But, then, Roman Catholics try and make their version into something never spoken of in Scripture. They attribute all sort of sorcery and mysticism into their cultic ideas, and try to send people down that rabbit hole.

To those with the Holy Ghost indwelling, we know the Father's plan of salvation. It is quite simple. It requires simple faith and resting in His Grace. But, Roman Catholics want to distract and pervert that message with claims of some fictional woman's ability to redeem us like Christ. They tout all sorts of mystical visions to support their UNScriptiral ideas and policies. They are a cult.

God chose to provide us with a CLEAR path to eternal life with Him. He gives us simple instructions. He did not provide an alternate plan!

No matter how many believe believe a lie, it is still a lie! No matter how old an organization grows, if it does not provide the Truth of God's plan, then it is an abomination to God. Simply repeating the same things again and again does not add to the Truth. It only deceives those who do not know better!

John 3: 11 Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.[e] 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ****

Matthew 24: 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you ahead of time.

26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28 Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

>> But, then, Roman Catholics try and make their version into something never spoken of in Scripture. They attribute all sort of sorcery and mysticism into their cultic ideas, and try to send people down that rabbit hole. To those with the Holy Ghost indwelling, we know the Father's plan of salvation. It is quite simple. It requires simple faith and resting in His Grace. But, Roman Catholics want to distract and pervert that message with claims of some fictional woman's ability to redeem us like Christ. They tout all sorts of mystical visions to support their UNScriptiral ideas and policies. They are a cult. <<

You mention "Roman Catholics" in your comments repeatedly, as if "Roman Catholics" decided on their own -- in defiance of all other Christian groups -- to come up with the doctrine that Mary gave birth to God.

If you study history and basic Christian theology, you'd realize the reverse is true.

Scripture makes it explicitly clear that Christ is both God AND Man, had always existed that way, and thus Christ was fully God when Mary gave birth to him.

So-called Christians who REJECTED the idea that Mary gave birth to God, and argued that Mary only birth to "Jesus, the human person", were condemned as heretics by ALL Christians WORLDWIDE, many centuries ago. The idea that the human and divine natures of Christ are extremely separate and that Mary "only" carried the human nature is her womb is a grave heresy in mainstream Christianity.

Catholic theologians, Eastern Orthodox scholars, Oriental Orthodox church fathers, the various Protestant reformers (Luther, Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, John Weasley, etc.) have ALL affirmed over the centuries that Mary carried God incarnate in her womb and gave birth to God incarnate. Even the modern day successor to the Nestorian Church, which started this heresy in the first place, has now accepted that Mary gave birth to God incarnate.

If you deny this basic Christian dogma, you are placing yourself outside of centuries of mainstream orthodox Christian teaching and outside of the dogma of the vast majority of self-proclaimed Christian churches today. Nestorianism is a fringe belief that died off in the 1400s. Only self-proclaimed "Christians" like Jehovah's Witnesses and Unitarians will deny that Jesus was fully God long before Mary gave birth to Him. I don't think you want to end up in their company.