Excerpts from a message conveyed by Jesus on December 25, 1915. Published in The Gospel of God’s Love, Book One, The Padgett Messages, on pages 229 – 235.
“The one great truth that is the foundation of humankinds salvation is the new birth, and the fact that the Divine Love of the Father is waiting for every person to let it enter their soul and make them at-One with the Father. I am with you often, trying to impress you with the great necessity of having these truths revealed as mortals’ souls are longing for the truth, and their intellects are dissatisfied with the present teachings of Christian theology and the sayings of the Bible in many places.
“I was with you as you were reading an article which advocated eliminating from the Christian teachings a large part of the New and nearly all of the Old Testament, and formulating a faith based entirely of my sayings. But the only difficulty in carrying out this plan effectively and having it produce the desired result is that the Bible does not contain many sayings of mine disclosing the truth, and does contain many sayings attributed to me which I never said.
“Take the saying over which a controversy is now being had: “I came not to bring peace to the world, but rather a sword.” Now while that appears in Matthew’s Gospel as coming from me, I never said it, nor used any expression that would convey the meaning that some commentators are endeavoring to place upon these words. I never taught war upon a person’s neighbor and never at any time was such a thought part of my teachings. Militarism is all wrong, and against all the precepts of truth; it should not for a moment be believed in by any Christian or anyone else that such action was ever advocated by me.
“While my truths will cause a division among people (as they differ in opinions of what truth is) and may separate and cause bitter thoughts and even hatred to arise in their souls toward one another, yet the accomplishing of such results was not the object of my teachings. Rather they are the result of the unavoidable conflict between truth and error. Truth cannot be compromised even for the sake of peace, and error will not submit or acknowledge its untruth, so long as mortals continue to believe in and advocate it”. To be continued…