Message from Paul, published in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 263.
“The book on the vicarious atonement which you’ve been reading about – the “ransom price” and the blood of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross – all these things are in error, you must not believe what it says. I know the Bible ascribes to me the teaching of these things, but I never did. I tell you now, that the Bible cannot be depended on as containing the things that I wrote; there are many additions to what I wrote and many omissions also.
“Many things contained in that book were never written by any of the alleged authors. The writings of any of us are not in existence, and have not been for many centuries; and when they were copied and recopied, great additions and omissions were made, and at last doctrines and dogmas were interpolated that we never at any time believed or wrote.
“I have to say this, and wish to emphasize my statement with all the conviction and knowledge of the truth that I possess: Jesus never paid any debt of man by his death and blood or vicarious atonment.
“During Jesus’ life on earth, an understanding of his mission was given him as he progressed in his soul development; and not until his anointing was he wholly qualified to enter upon his mission. The mission was twofold: To declare to humankind that the Father had rebestowed the Divine Love which the first parents had forfeited; and secondly, to show the Way by which that Love could be obtained, so that the possessor of it would become a partaker of the divine nature and immortal.
“Jesus had no other mission than this, any statement by preacher or teacher, or church doctrine or dogmas, or by the Bible that his mission was other then what I have stated is untrue. He emphatically never claimed that he came to earth to pay any “ransom” for humankind, or to save them by his death on the cross, or in any other way than by teaching them that the great privilege of obtaining immortality had been bestowed upon them, and that by prayer and faith they could obtain it.
“The author of the book is mistaken in his theories – he makes a forcible presentation of the Scriptures, but the Scriptures do not contain the truth; except for the ‘New Birth’ that Jesus taught.” Amen