Excerpts from The Gospel of God’s Love, The Padgett Messages, on page 200. Received from John the Baptist.
“I come because I want to encourage you to pray more. The Father’s Love is waiting for you to fill your soul to its upmost, and the only thing required on your part is prayer and faith.
“We all are interested in you and want you to get into a condition that will enable you to continue receiving the Master’s messages; the time is ripe for them to be delivered to humankind, so they can begin their work of redeemng souls from their false beliefs and erroneous doctrines. I, John, tell you this, for I can see that human beings are longing for the truths of God – such truths as will remove from their spiritual beliefs all superstition and error; such truths as will accord with the reasoning of the people who are not biased by erroneous beliefs.
“These truths will be easier for the mere materialist to receive and understand than by those who are bound by the beliefs which the creeds and dogmas of the churches have inculcated. This revelation of God’s Gift of Love will be more easily accepted by those who have no preconceived ideas about God’s nature and relationship to his children, rather than the learned theologian, or the simple worshippers at the alters of churches who believe whatsoever may be told them by priest or preacher.
(Question asked about baptism) “Well, I have been interested in the great amount of discussion on that point and how the belief, one way or the other, has caused those calling themselves ‘Christians’ to form distinct sects. If they only knew that it does not make a particle of difference to their soul’s salvation whether Jesus was immersed or sprinkled, they would not let the bitter feelings to arise that frequently do in discussing this matter. As this water was merely symbolical of the washing away of sin and error, and did not actually accomplish that great necessity, it does not make any difference whether the recipient of baptism was immersed or sprinkled.
“It is strange that humans who profess to have received the forgiveness of their sins and have become reconciled to God, should let a trifling thing of this kind cause so much strife and bitter disputations.
“I will stop now. Your brother in the Christ Spirit, John the Baptist”
Amen