Excerpts from “The Gospel of God’s Love, “The Padgett Messages, from Luke.
“I know it is said that human beings are divine because they were created in the image of God, but nothing which is the mere image is ever a part of the substance, so cannot possibly have the qualities of that substance. Commonly speaking, the image may have the appearance, and for the ordinary affairs of life may serve the purpose of the real, until something arises that demands the production of the real, and then the image will no longer serve the purpose.
“In the case of the creation of human souls, they were made in the image of God in one particular only, and that in the matter of soul appearance. The physical or spiritual body was not made in the image of God, for God has no such bodies; only the soul is made in the image of God, the great Oversoul. And so long as the soul remains in the image of the Father, it will never be more than the mere human that it was at the time of its creation, and the divine substance of the Father will not be a part of their soul.
“At the creation of the human soul, God’s plan was that the image might become the substance, and there was given to the soul, the potential of obtaining that substance. But humans, through their “disobedience” or failure to comply with or follow out the requirements of the plan provided, forfeited this potential which had been confered upon them, and thereby lost the possibility of having the image transformed into the substance – which was absolutely necessary in order for humans to become the possessor of any part of the Father’s divinity. And so, when humans call themselves divine, they assert that which is not true – but which, since the coming of Jesus, may become true.
“Because of the First Parents’ choice to not become dependent upon God, they forfeited the potentiality to receive God’s Grace. They continued to live for many years after the potential to receive Divine Love ‘died’, their spirit bodies and souls never died, for they still live. The only thing that died was the possibility of receiving the substance which would make them divine and immortal.”
If our first parents had prayed for the Father’s Love, the potential to receive It would never have been lost. Amen