Message from St. Peter, in The Gospel of God’s Love, found on page 179.
“I see what you’ve been reading, and must inform you that many of these so-called miracles of healing, raising of the ‘dead’, and controlling the laws of nature never occurred. These accounts are not true, and are the results of the imaginings of people who attempted to add to the book that Luke wrote.
“Of course there is a true foundation for some of these alleged miracles, but as to others, there is no foundation in fact. Jesus did heal the sick, and cure the blind and the deaf, and the withered hand and the palsied man, and resurrected the supposed dead, but not in the way described in the New Testament, and it is not good for people to believe all these miracles to be true.
(A question is asked.) “Well, that incident never occurred, for Jesus, in casting out evil spirits, would have no authority or power to permit them to enter into the swine, and it would not have been in consonance with his love and ideas of what was just to have allowed the swine to receive these spirits and thereby perish, as the account says. And besides, the result of such a happening would have been that the property of the innocent owners was taken from them and lost. Never in all Jesus’ performances of miracles or in any of his teachings did he ever do or say that which worked wrong to any human being.
“Sometime I will consider these miracles in a message, and inform you of those that he actually performed, and those that are mere fantacies of some early Christian teachers who had wonderful imaginations and used them in adding to the truths of Luke’s original writings.
(A question is asked.) “Well, there is some little truth in that, for we were in a storm and were afraid, Jesus slept and we awakened him. But he did not rebuke the storm and the waves and cause them to subside, but rather he allayed our fears by his talk and example, and as to it became as if there were no storm, for when fear left us, it was as if we were not sensible of the storm, so far as the dread of drowning was concerned.
Many wonders ascribed to Jesus were never performed. I must stop now. Your brother in Christ, Peter