Continued from Luke, in The Gospel of God’s Love, page 249.
“…And so the “mystery” became the church’s sacred symbol of truth – unexplainable, and therefore more certain and entitled to credence. For it seems to be the tendency of mortal’s minds, or at least those who believe in the Bible as the inspired word of God, to welcome and embrace as the more wonderful and important and the more to be cherished, those things which savor of the mysterious, rather than those which a person may read and understand.
“Nowhere in the Bible in there any saying of Jesus to the effect that God is tripartite, consisting of the “Father, son and Holy Ghost.” And as a fact, never did Jesus teach any such doctrine, but only this: That the Father is God, and the only God; that he, Jesus, is His son, and the first fruits of the resurrection; and that the holy-ghost is God’s messenger for conveying the divine-love, and is, as such, “the comforter.”
“I know that in some of the gospels, as now contained in the Bible and adopted as cononical, it is said in effect that the Godhead consists of these three; but such gospels do not contain the truth in this respect, and are not the same gospels that were originally written. These original gospels have been added to and taken from in the passing of the years, and in the copying and recopying that occurred before the adoption of the same. The adopted versions were compiled from many writings; and as the compilers in those early times differed in their opinions respecting religious truths, the more powerful of these, having authority to declare what should be accepted as true, directed the copies to be made in accord with their ideas, and announced and put forth such productions to be true copies of the originals. And as these copies were successively made, the preceeding ones were destroyed; and hence the earliest existing manuscripts of these gospels came into being many years after the originals had been written and destroyed.
“And I, Luke, who did write a gospel, and who am acquainted with the present gospel ascribed to me, say that there are many vital declarations contained in it that I never wrote and that are not true, and many truths that I did write which are not contained therein.; and so with other gospels.” To be continued…