A pamphlet published by the Foundation Church of the New Birth, contains a message titled, “Souls at Creation.” Following are some excerpts: “Humans know they have a soul that is inherently pure, which encourages them to strive to make themselves better human beings. This is living the moral and ethical life, as prescribed by Hammurabi (Semitic King ruling in Babylon, 1728-1686 BC) and Moses, but gives purity of soul as the ultimate reward. Prayers for God’s Divine Love not only purifies, but transforms the soul from human to divine.
“God has created souls with some of His qualities, but without the divinity which His Soul possesses. People act as they do because they have human souls – not divine souls. Because of their constitution, human heredity, and exercising their free will choices, they respond to their circumstances in order to fulfill themselves as human personalities and individuals.
“It has been asked when I became the Messiah – at the creation of my soul by God in the midst of the ageless eons of the past, or at the moment I was an incarnate soul in the womb of my mother, Mary, or at birth [or when I was baptized by my cousin, John]. God did not deliberately bestow upon me the Divine Love, but I did receive some small portion of it into my soul while in my mother’s womb, this without my being aware that it was happening. My soul was constituted to understand the meaning of God and, therefore, I was predisposed to long to be close to this Loving Creator.”
Later Jesus explained, that the first Divine Love received by a prayerful person, goes toward the purification of their natural love. I understand this to mean that before a soul commences to become transformed, it becomes a purified soul. The small amount of God’s Grace, which Jesus received before birth, enabled him to be born free of sin (the sins of the parents are passed down to the children even unto the third and fourth generations). This is when God rebestowed the potential Gift to receive Divine Love, to all souls everywhere.
Jesus explains that it was not foreordained that he should become the Messiah, but his soul was constituted for that mission; it was his free will decision, and determination, to fulfill that Mission. We are exceedingly blessed to have had this wondrous, loving example to demonstrate how we can become divine, at-One with our Father and born-again in Love. Amen