Message from Peter, Apostle of Jesus, in reference to a truth which exists in the spirit world. Found in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 143.
“There is, in our world, a law which makes the soul of one who has not yet been purified suffer the penalties for acts for which they were guilty during their earth life. And there is no forgiveness of these acts, in the sense taught by the theologians and churches. The only forgiveness is the cessation of recollection of these acts, so they become as though they had never been. As the soul becomes purified and in harmony with the laws of its creation, it then comes into its natural condition. Then and only then forgivness takes place.
“God does not forgive by the mere act of pronouncing forgiveness, or by the arbitrary and sudden “blotting out” of sins, without first removing the condition which creates the inharmony. And so you will understand that if God cannot forgive sins in this way, neither can popes, priests or churches. And the pronouncing of forgiveness by these men constitutes a deception of and injury to the persons who pray and ask for forgiveness.
“And for such deception these men will have to answer when they come to the spirit world and realize the truth of forgiveness, and the great deception that they had practiced upon those who were their followers and believers in these false doctrines. Many spirits are now living and suffering in darkness and in their purgatories just because of their belief, and the result thereof, in these misleading teachings.
“There can be no sinning of the physical body, or of the spirit body, but only of the soul, caused by the exercise of the will in a manner antagonistic to the will of the Father. The body, of course, is affected by these inharmonious thoughts and impelling directions of the will. As God leaves to mortals the freedom of exercising their will, and as such will may be influenced by the thoughts, desires and affections of their appetites, so God leaves to them the application of the remedies that will free the soul from such influence and effects caused by this exercise of will. Only when these inharmonious thoughts and appetites become eliminated from his soul and desires, does the soul come into its natural condition and in harmony with the will of God.”
To be continued…