Message from Jesus, published in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 2.
“When I was on earth I was not worshiped as God, but was considered a “son of God,” in the sense that in me were the truths of my Father and many of His mysterious powers. I did not proclaim to be God; neither did I permit my disciples to believe that I was God, only that I was His beloved son, sent to proclaim to humankind His truths and show the way to the love of the Father. I was no different from other men, except that I possessed this love of God to a degree which made me free from sin, and prevented the evils that formed a part of the nature of humans from becoming a part of my nature.
“No person who believes that I am God has knowledge of the truth, or is obeying the commandments of God by worshiping me. Such worshipers are doing the cause of God and my teachings great injury; for many a person would have become a true believer in and worshiper of the Father and follower of my teachings had not this erreoneous doctrine been interpolated into the Bible. It was not with my authority, or in consequence of my teachings that such doctrine was believed in. I am only a son of my Father, as you are; and while I was always free from sin and error, yet you are His son also, and if you seek earnestly and pray to the Father with faith, you may become as free from sin and error as I was then, and am now.
“The Father is Himself, alone. There is no other God besides Him, and no other God to be worshiped. I am His teacher of truth and am “the way, the truth and the life,” because in me are those qualities of goodness and knowledge which fit me to show the way to eternal life with the Father, and to teach that God has prepared a kingdom in which they may live forever, if they so desire.
“But notwithstanding my teachings, those who assumed high positions in what is called the Christian Church imposed doctrines so at variance with the truth that in these days many, in exercise of enlightened freedom, have become unbelievers and turned away from God, and have taught that they are sufficient for their own salvation.” To be continued…