In a message from Jesus, he writes about the Celestial Kingdom and God’s plan of salvation for humankind: “I know that the Bible contains many sayings attributed to me in reference to this plan, but many of these alleged sayings are not true, for I never said them, and they are contrary to what I received from the Father as to the true plan of humankind’s redemption from sin, and as to the only way by which they can obtain the true at-Onement with the Father and a knowledge of their own immortality.
“Many of these sayings were written by men who knew not the way to at-Onement with the Father, and were based upon the existing teachings of Jewish Scripture. These men made me out to say those things that agreed with their ideas of what was necessary to humankind’s salvation, confusing the truth that I taught with what they believed to be the truth as contained in the Old Testament. Much harm has been done by attributing many of these sayings to me because of the supposed authority that is thereby attached to them.
“My disciples never taught … that their salvation depended upon faith in me as the ‘son of God’, or that I, the mere Jesus, had in me any virtue to forgive sin, or to insure an entrance into the Kingdom of God, or that I, as the man Jesus, was the ‘son of God’ in the sense that the Bible teaches.
“They knew that the Father had revealed to me the truth, and that I had in me that Love, which to a large extent made me like unto and at-One with the Father; that my teachings of the rebestowal of the Divine Love were true; [and, to the extent of their possession of this Love,] they would become at-One with the Father and also with me. …
“I say they knew this, and taught it to the people as I had taught it to them, but when the compilers of the present New Testament came to declare my sayings and teachings, they knew not of this Love, and hence would not understand what many of my true expressions meant, and gave them an interpretation that would comply with their existing beliefs. No, I am not correctly quoted in many of these sayings, and when they were written men had lost knowledge of my teachings.” Amen