Martin Luther came to write through James Padgett, on January 31, 1917. This message is found in The Gospel of God’s Love, on page 242.
When Mr. Padgett asked a question, he did not write it on the tablet he was using to record the spirits’ thoughts. “Well, you have asked me a question that I should like to answer… in short, Jesus was not “of the Substance of God,” in the sense that the Catholic church, following the Nicene Creed, claimed. He took on a part of the divine substance as the Divine Love filled his soul – and so can you or any other person, to the extent that they receive the Love. But to say that Jesus was in his very being “of the Substance” of the Father, to the degree that made him “equal” to God, is erroneous and should not be taught or believed in.
“Jesus was born, or created in the likeness of God, as all other souls were created, and no other. Jesus was a human being, just as you and I, and if he had not received into his soul the Divine Love, he would have never been of the Substance of the Father. The Love commenced to come into his soul very early – before his birth, and at the time of his anointing he was so filled with It, that you may say he was “of the Substance of the Father”.
“He was no more divine, though “natrually,” than was any other mortal born in the flesh. All the speculation that ever existed as to the Eucharist and the change in the qualities of the bread and the wine are untrue. Jesus is Not in these elements in any particular view that may be taken. His flesh and blood went the way of all other mortals, and no more forms a part of the bread and wine than does your flesh and blood.
“This sacrament, as it is called, is distasteful to the Master; and when it is celebrated, I must tell you, he is not present – not only, not in his flesh and blood, but also not in his spiritual presence. JESUS DISLIKES ANY KIND OF WORSHIP WHICH PLACES HIM AS ITS OBJECT, he wants God alone to be worshipped, and himself thought of as the one who brought immortality to light by his teachings, and by demonstrating the truth of the existence of God’s Grace, the Divine Love, in himself.” Amen