From Jesus, in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 224.
“I was with you at the meeting, and saw you were thinking of several things I had written, and wanted to tell the preacher of these truths, but, of course, you could not.
“He taught from the Bible text, which I am credited with having uttered, but my meaning was different from the way he explained it. When I said “He that believeth on me shall never die,” I meant that the person whose soul was not dead in sin, and who believed the truths that I declared – that God’s Divine Love was waiting to enter into and fill their soul with its Essence – AND who by faith, received that Love, such person would never die. That is, they would become Immortal, as God is Immortal.
No mere belief in me as Jesus the man, or as the “son of God,” is sufficient to give a person eternal life. For while they must believe that I was sent by the Father to proclain the great truth, that He had again bestowed upon humankind the possibility of obtaining this Divine Love by their prayers and faith, yet unless they believed this AND became the possessors of this Divine Love, they could never claim to possess this eternal life.
I wish that the preacher would pay more attention to the truths that I taught – that is, those truths which show humans the Father’s Love, waiting to be bestowed, and the way to obtain It – than to my personality. I, Jesus, as the son of man or of God, do not save any person from their sins and make them at-One with the Father. But the truths which I taught, and were taught me by the Father, ARE things that save.
I know that preachers attempt to explain these things by the light of the Bible, as they understand that light, but it is so often obscured that instead of preaching from light, they preach from darkness. For these reasons, I am anxious to deliver to you my teachings, that the world may know what the truth is, and what the individual must do in order to obtain eternal life and immortality
“I know that you are anxious to do this work, and that your soul is longing for the inflowing of God’s Love. Keep up your courage, trust in the Father, and believe in my love. Your brother and friend, Jesus”