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October 18th, 1919
Received by:James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
Let me write a few lines for I must tell you of an important truth
that is necessary for men to know in order to reach the Celestial
Kingdom, and a knowledge of the plan of salvation.
I know that the Bible contains many sayings attributed to me in
reference to this plan, and many of my alleged sayings are believed
in by those who claim to be Christians, which are not true, for
I never said them and they are contrary to what I received from
the Father as to the true plan of men's redemption from sin, and
as to the only way, by which, they can obtain the true at-onement
with the Father and a knowledge of their own immortality.
Many of these sayings were written by men who knew not the only
way to a oneness with the Father, and were the results of the teachings
of the manuscripts that then existed and were received by the Jews
as the revelations of Moses, and of many of the prophets who had
no knowledge of the Divine Love or of its rebestowal upon humanity.
These men made me say those things that accorded with their ideas
of what was necessary to a salvation or possibility of their becoming
at one with me and with the Father, and in writing their ideas confused
the truth with what they supposed was the truth as contained in
the Old Testament; and much harm has been done by attributing many
of these sayings to me, because of the supposed authority that thereby
attached to them.
My disciples never taught, and never understood that their salvation,
or that of any man, depended upon faith in me as the son of God,
or that I, the mere Jesus, had in me any virtue to forgive sin or
to ensure an entrance into the true Kingdom of God, or that, I,
as the man Jesus was a son of God in the sense that the Bible teaches.
They knew that the Father had revealed to me the truth, and that
I had in me that Love, which to a large extent, made me like unto
and at one with the Father. That my teachings of the rebestowal
of the Divine Love was true, and that when they or any man should
possess this Love, to the extent of that possession, they would
become at one with the Father, and also with me, who possessed it
to a greater degree than any man. I say, they knew this and taught
it to the people as I had taught it to them; but when the compilers
of the present New Testament came to declare my sayings and teachings,
they knew not of this Love, and hence, could not understand what
many of my true expressions meant, and gave them an interpretation
so far as my real sayings were concerned, that would comply with
their knowledge.
No, I am not correctly quoted in many of these sayings, and I may
say in the large majority of them, for when they were written, as
now contained in the New Testament, men had lost the knowledge of
their true meaning, and out of their own minds recorded that which
they thought was what I had really said.
I do not see how these false sayings can be corrected, except to
take each saying and show, by its incompatibility with what I now
say, its falsity. This would take too much time and expend much
energy that could the better be employed in declaring what the truth
actually is. But this I will say, that whenever these sayings impart
that I claim to be God, or that I could or did forgive men of their
sins, or that whatsoever should be asked of the Father in my name
would be received, are all untrue and has greatly misled the true
seeker of knowledge of Immortality.
My disciples were close to me and understood better my sayings
than all others, and yet they did not understand all the truth,
and left the mortal life with many expectations that were not fulfilled
and in the very nature of the same could not be fulfilled. They
were in certain non-essentials influenced in their beliefs and expectations
by their training in the teachings of these Old Testament manuscripts,
and were very largely Jews in belief when they died. They understood
the vital things that determined their relationship to God and to
their existence in the future world, but as to many of the non-essentials
they retained the faith of their fathers, and were not able to receive
all the truth which I could have taught them.
I must not linger to correct these alleged sayings of mine, but
must occupy my time and yours in declaring and revealing the Truth
as it exists now and existed then, and you and the world may know,
that wherever and whenever these Bible sayings of mine conflict
with what I have written and shall write you, they are untrue and
were never said by me. Thus, in this general way, I will make plain
to men that the Bible must not in all particulars be relied on or
believed in as containing the Truth or my declarations of the Truth.
I will soon come and write a message on a vital truth and hope
that you will be in condition to receive it. I will now say good
night and God bless your efforts and keep you safely in His care.
Your brother and friend,
Jesus
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