Message from Padgett’s father, in The Gospel of God’s Love, on page 59.
“I have been listening to your grandmother’s message, and was interested in the way you received it. It is a deep and important communication of truth which is not generally known to mortals. We in the lower spheres do not know these truths so extensively as do the spirits of the celestial spheres, but I have heard the Master discourse on the subject of God, and what your grandmother wrote is, in short, what he explained to us, in a way we could better and to a greater extent comprehend than can you.
“There is one thing that I have observed in the case of these who call themselves scientists and who believe only in the material, and also in the case of those who calim to be unbelievers, when they come into spirit life: Very soon they realize that there is, or must be a God, and that their God of nature, or their man-made God, does not supply the world, if I may thus express it, which they find to exist here.
“They, of course, do not get a conception of the nature of God in the beginning, but they know very soon after they come over that there is a God other and different from what they conceived Him to be (when they had any conception of him on earth). And when they denied that there was any God, they soon realized the absolute necessity for there being one. And when they had made man his own God, they see many spirits of men in such conditions of darkness and suffering and helplessness that they readily realize that man is not God.
“So, I say, the first truth that enters their mind and soul when they become spirits is that there is a God, although they do not know His nature and attributes.
“So you see, there is only one little veil of flesh btween the vaunted mind of mortals that proclaim there is no God but nature, or no God at all, and the mind conscious of its weakness and littleness as it exists in the spirit world.
“I must stop writing on this subject or you will think I’m going to write you a lecture, which I do not intend to do now.
“With all my love, I am your father, John H. Padgett.” Amen