Message from Martin Luther, in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 235.
“When on earth, I firmly believed our churches doctrines and teachings, and was sincere in trying to induce others to believe in them also. But after my long experience in the spirit world, and my communications with Jesus, his apostles, and others, I realize and know that many of my teachings were erroneous, and should no longer be believed by those who worship in the churches that bear my name.
“My doctrine of “Justification by faith” is erroneous, when its foundation is considered, and the impossibility of understanding from my teachings and the church tenets, just what can be intended by the word faith.
“Our ‘faith’ was founded on the assumption that Jesus was a part of the Godhead, and the only begotten son of the Father, who so loved sinful man that He caused His sinless and beloved son to die on the cross, that “divine justice” might be appeased, and the burden of men’s sins taken from them and placed on Jesus. Oh, the terrible error of it all, and how it has mislead so many of its believers. Such objects of faith have no foundation in fact, and such faith does not “justify” sinful man, or bring him into at-Onement with the Father, so that he becomes a redeemed child of God.
“Jesus was not part of the Godhead, and neither was he “begotten” in the way that I taught and my followers believed. He was a son of man, and the “son of God” by reason of the fact that he had received into his soul the Divine Love of the Father, which made him like God in many of His attributes of divinity.
“God did not send Jesus to earth for the purpose of dying on the cross, or for the purpose of paying any debt or appeasing the wrath of his angry and jealous Father, for these qualities are not attributes of God. Only Love and empathy, and the desire that humans turn from their sins and become reconciled to Him, are His attributes, as affect the salvation of mortals.
“Jesus came to earth with a mission to save humankind from their sins, and that mission was to be performed in two ways: the one, by declaring that the Father had rebestowed the privilege of receiving Divine Love; and the other by showing the Way to receive It.” Amen