Jesus is not God
http://www.divinelove.org/volume1/v1-135.htm
(...) When I was on earth I was not worshiped as God, but was considered
merely as the son of God in the sense that in me were imposed the truths
of
my Father and many of His wonderful and mysterious powers. I did not
proclaim myself to be God, neither did I permit any of my disciples to
believe that I was God, but only that I was His beloved son sent to
proclaim
to mankind His truths, and show them the way to the Love of the Father. I
was not different from other men, except that I possessed to a degree this
Love of God, which made me free from sin, and prevented the evils that
formed a part of the nature of men from becoming a part of my nature. No
man
who believes that I am God has a knowledge of the truth, or is obeying the
commandments of God by worshiping me. Such worshipers are blaspheming and
are doing the cause of God and my teachings great injury. Many a man would
have become a true believer in and worshiper of the Father and follower of
my teachings, had not this blasphemous dogma been interpolated into the
Bible. It was not with my authority, or in consequence of my teachings
that
such a very injurious doctrine was promulgated or believed in.
I am only a son of my Father as you are, and while I was always free from
sin and error, as regards the true conception of my Father's true
relationship to mankind, yet you are His son also; and if you will 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 good and
knowledge
which fit me to show the way and lead men to eternal life in the Father,
and
to teach them that God has prepared a Kingdom in which they may live
forever, if they so desire. But not withstanding my teachings, men and
those
who have assumed high places in what is called the Christian Church,
impose
doctrines so at variance with the truth, that, in these latter days, many
men in the exercise of an enlightened freedom and of reason, have become
infidels and turned away from God and His Love, and have thought and
taught
that man, himself, is sufficient for his own salvation.
The time has came when these men must be taught to know that while the
teachings of these professed authorities on the truths of God are all
wrong,
they, these same men, are in error when they refuse to believe in God and
my
teachings. What my teachings are, I know it is difficult to understand
from
the writings of the New Testament, for many things therein contained I
never
said, and many things that I did say are not written therein. I am now
going
to give to the world the truths as I taught them when on earth, and many
that I never disclosed to my disciples or inspired others to write.
NO MAN CAN COME TO THE FATHER'S LOVE, EXCEPT HE BE BORN AGAIN. THIS IS THE
GREAT AND FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH WHICH MEN MUST LEARN AND BELIEVE, FOR WITHOUT
THIS NEW BIRTH MEN CANNOT PARTAKE OF THE DIVINE ESSENCE OF GOD'S LOVE,
WHICH, WHEN POSSESSED BY A MAN, MAKES HIM AT ONE WITH THE FATHER. THIS
LOVE
COMES TO MAN BY THE WORKINGS OF THE HOLY GHOST, CAUSING THIS LOVE TO FLOW
INTO THE HEART AND SOUL, AND FILLING IT, SO THAT ALL SIN AND ERROR MUST BE
ERADICATED.
I AM NOT GOING TO TELL TO-NIGHT JUST HOW THIS WORKING OF THE SPIRIT
OPERATES, BUT, I SAY, IF A MAN WILL PRAY TO THE FATHER AND BELIEVE, AND
EARNESTLY ASK THAT THIS LOVE BE GIVEN HIM, HE WILL RECEIVE IT; AND WHEN IT
COMES INTO HIS SOUL HE WILL REALIZE IT.
LET NOT MEN THINK THAT BY ANY EFFORT OF THEIR OWN THEY CAN COME INTO THIS
UNION WITH THE FATHER, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT. NO RIVER CAN RISE HIGHER THAN
ITS SOURCE; AND NO MAN WHO HAS ONLY THE NATURAL LOVE AND FILLED WITH ERROR
CAN OF HIS OWN POWERS CAUSE THAT NATURAL LOVE TO PARTAKE OF THE DIVINE, OR
HIS NATURE TO BE RELIEVED OF SUCH SIN AND ERROR.
MAN IS A MERE CREATURE AND CANNOT CREATE ANYTHING HIGHER THAN HIMSELF; SO
MAN CANNOT RISE TO THE NATURE OF THE DIVINE, UNLESS THE DIVINE FIRST COMES
INTO THAT MAN AND MAKES HIM A PART OF ITS OWN DIVINITY.
ALL MEN WHO DO NOT GET A PART OF THIS DIVINE ESSENCE WILL RE LEFT IN THEIR
NATURAL STATE, AND WHILE THEY MAY PROGRESS TO HIGHER DEGREES OF GOODNESS
AND
FREEDOM FROM SIN AND FROM EVERYTHING THAT TENDS TO MAKE THEM UNHAPPY, YET,
THEY WILL BE ONLY NATURAL MEN, STILL.
I CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SHOW MEN THE WAY TO THIS DIVINE LOVE OF THE
FATHER
AND TEACH THEM HIS SPIRITUAL TRUTHS, AND MY MISSION WAS THAT IN ALL ITS
PERFECTION, AND INCIDENTALLY, TO TEACH THEM THE WAY TO GREATER HAPPINESS
ON
EARTH AS WELL AS IN THE SPIRIT WORLD BY TEACHING THEM THE WAY TO THE
PURIFICATION OF THE NATURAL LOVE; EVEN THOUGH THEY NEGLECTED TO SEEK FOR
AND
OBTAIN THIS DIVINE LOVE AND BECOME ONE WITH THE FATHER.
LET MEN PONDER THIS MOMENTOUS QUESTION, AND THEY WILL LEARN THAT THE
HAPPINESS OF THE NATURAL MAN, AND THE HAPPINESS OF THE MAN WHO HAS
OBTAINED
THE ATTRIBUTES OF DIVINITY, ARE VERY DIFFERENT, AND IN ALL ETERNITY MUST
BE
SEPARATE AND DISTINCT.
MY TEACHINGS ARE NOT VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND AND FOLLOW, AND IF MEN WILL
ONLY LISTEN TO THEM AND BELIEVE THEM AND FOLLOW THEM, THEY WILL LEARN THE
WAY AND OBTAIN THE ONE PERFECT STATE OF HAPPINESS WHICH THE FATHER HAS
PREPARED FOR HIS CHILDREN. NO MAN CAN OBTAIN THIS STATE OF CELESTIAL
BLISS,
UNLESS HE FIRST GETS THIS DIVINE LOVE OF THE FATHER, AND SO BECOMES AT ONE
WITH THE FATHER.
I know it is thought and taught that morality and correct living and great
natural love will assure a man's future happiness, and to a degree this is
true, but this happineses is not that greater happiness which God desires
His children to have; and to show the way to which I came to earth to
teach.
But in some hearts and minds my truths found a lodgment, and were
preserved
to save mankind from total spiritual darkness and a relapse to worship of
form and ceremony only.
I have written you this to show that you must not let the teachings of the
Bible, and what men wrote or professed to have written therein, keep you
from receiving and understanding what I write.
I SHALL WRITE NO MORE TO-NIGHT, BUT I WILL CONTINUE TO TELL YOU THE TRUTHS
WHICH WILL BE "MY NEW GOSPEL TO ALL MEN," AND WHEN THEY HAVE HEARD MY
MESSAGES THEY WILL BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, AND ONLY ONE TO BE
WORSHIPED. (...)
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