From John, in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 261.
“As I and others have written you, the only way in which humans can be saved from their sins and become in at-Onement with the Father is by the New Birth, which the Master has described to you as being the result of the flowing into the soul of a human, the Divine Love of the Father, and the disappearing of everything that tends to sin and error. As this Love flows into a person’s soul, it permeates that soul, as does leaven the batch of dough, and thereby that soul becomes like the Father in His Divine Nature, and fitted to inhabit His Kingdom.
“Now you can see that there can be no possible relationship between the death of Jesus on the cross, and the giving to the soul of a human those divine qualities that belong to the Father’s nature. These qualities are not imparted to humans by death and blood, but by life and Love, and faith which comes with that Love (when I say faith, I do not mean the mere intellectual belief of a persons’ mind).
“As we have before written, when the first parents were created, they were not given this divine love, but were given the possibility of obtaining it, upon their seeking for it in the way that God had provided. It was not forced upon them, but it was optional with them whether they would receive it and become fitted to inhabit the Kingdom of Heaven. When they chose not to receive this Love, they forfeited this privilege, and as to it, “died,” and were left without a mediator between themselves and God.
“Here, I do not mean any mediator in the way of paying a debt, for they owed no debt to God. They were merely, as you mortals might say, “disinherited children.” The only mediator that humans needed after that time was one through whom might come the glorious tidings that the Father had restored this forfeited privilege.
“In this sense, never was there any mediator between God and humans until the coming of Jesus and his announcing that the Father had changed His will and restored to humankind the great privilege of partaking of His Divine Nature and immortality. Thus, as in the first man (Adam) all men died, so in the man Jesus were all men made alive.” Amen