Continued in a message from Luke, published in The Gospel of God’s Love.
“The doctrine of “original sin” is a mocking damnable lie, and mortals must decline and no longer submit to this belief – which, I am sorry to say, is fostered by the teachings of many churches, in order to sustain and make forcible their creeds and dogmas. These creeds teach that humans are are not considered to be worthy of the Mercy of the Father, and cannot possibly obtain that Mercy and be relieved from the great wrath and punishment that God has prepared for them unless they believe and acknowledge that they are dependent and lost souls, unworthy of the Father’s favor, or help of the instrumentalities which the Father uses to assist humans in regaining their lost estate.
“If mortals would only realize that they are dear children of the Father, and his highest creation, and that He prizes them above all his creations, and wants them to know that they are beings of wonderful qualities and possibilities, they would then have come to them an overpowering and convincing sense of what they really are, and of how necessary it is for them to assert their rights as such exalted creatures of the Father. And they would then realize that they are masters of sin and disease, for they are creators of the same.
“Let humans know that God does not desire His greatest creatures to become or be less than the perfect beings that He created. He is not flattered, nor does He have any pleasure in the thought that humans are degraded and fallen from His perfect creation, and that in order to rise again, they must believe that God will show His power in rescuing them from their low and helpless condition, No, God is not pleased by humans assuming such an attitude, nor does He need any such helpless condition of humans that He may show His power, or gratify what those teachings imply – His vanity – which he has none.
“In this particular, humans must work out their own salvation, but it will be a difficult task so long as they continue to believe and act upon the belief that they are creatures of original sin, and that as God in the beginning failed to make them the perfect being, so now only God can remedy what He failed to provide in His creation.” To be continued…