From Jesus, in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 277.
“I come to tell you a truth which is important to all humankind, and which I desire you to receive just as I write it; so give your best care to receive what I desire to write.
“I have read with you sayings contained in the alleged epistles of Paul and Peter, and I realize they are not consistent with the truth that has been declared to you by myself and the apostles who have written. I desire that you shall understand some of these inconsistencies, and discard from your mind these sayings of the epistles wherever they do not agree with what we have written or shall write to you.
“In the first place, the continual reference in these epistles to my being God is untrue and must not be believed – and also the statements that my blood washes away sin, or that I died on the cross for the salvation of humans, or took upon myself the sins of humankind and thereby relieved them from the burden and consequences of their sins. And when it is said that from the beginning the Father had foreordained my death on the cross so that humans might be redeemed from the penalties of sin, this is completely untrue, and has no foundation in fact or in the plan of God for the salvation of humankind. Neither Paul or Peter wrote these things, and never did I teach them, for they are not in accord with the great plan of salvation which I came to declare.
“In these epistles, too much emphasis is given to the importance of “faith” and works – and here by “faith” I mean the belief which the epistles taught – and not enough to the foundation of human’s redemption from sin and becoming reconciled to the Father through the new-birth. Many of their teachings about the conduct of humans towards fellow humans are true, and are as applicable to the conduct of mortals today as they were in the days in which the apostles taught. But when the epistles teach or lead humans to believe that these “moral principles” will, by their observance, enable a human to enter the Kingdom of God, they are false and misleading. Humans must understand and appreciate the difference between that which comes from leading a good moral life, and the results which come from the new-birth of soul.” To be continued…