Original Sin or Inherited Negativity?
"But this doctrine of original sin is a mocking, damnable lie." — Luke
Inherited Negativity, the Original Purity of Humanity, and the Hope of Divine Transformation
Messages from Luke and Jesus in the Second Coming Series from Spirit
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Message References
Luke: What Is Necessary for a Man to Recover the Purity of Soul and Love Possessed by the First Parents
April 27, 1916, Received by James Padgett
Jesus: How a Mortal May Obtain the Development of His Soul Without the Help of the Divine Love
June 17, 1916, Received by James Padgett
Jesus: Inherited Negativity and Original Sin
September 21, 2010, Received by F.A.B.
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Introduction
Few Christian doctrines have shaped Western thought more profoundly than the doctrine of original sin.
For centuries, many believers have been taught that humanity inherited not only the consequences of Adam and Eve's disobedience, but also a fallen nature and even guilt itself.
According to the Messages examined in this article, however, that is not what happened.
Humanity did not inherit Adam's guilt.
Nor did God create humanity sinful.
The first parents were created pure.
Their descendants were created pure.
What humanity inherited was something very different.
Not original sin.
But inherited negativity.
That distinction changes everything.
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Were We Created Sinful?
Luke answers this question without hesitation.
No.
Human beings were created perfect.
He writes:
"He should realize that he is a perfect creature of God..."
According to Luke, sin is not part of humanity's original creation.
Neither are fear, hatred, selfishness, pride, jealousy, violence, or disease.
These are not qualities God placed within the human soul.
They are conditions that developed after the Fall through humanity’s exercise of free will in violation of God’s Laws of harmony.
The soul itself remains God's creation.
The problem lies not in what God created.
The problem lies in what the soul has accumulated.
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Luke's Challenge to Original Sin
Luke makes one of the strongest statements found anywhere in the Messages.
He writes:
"But this doctrine of original sin is a mocking, damnable lie..."
Strong words.
Yet Luke immediately explains what he means.
Humanity's fallen condition is real.
But it is not because God created humanity corrupt.
Nor because Adam's guilt has been legally transferred to every child.
Rather, generations of false beliefs, selfish choices, fear, violence, and disharmony have repeatedly covered the soul’s true nature.
The perfect creation remains.
It simply becomes obscured.
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What Humanity Really Inherits
The Messages do not deny that children are profoundly influenced by those who come before them.
They simply describe a different kind of inheritance.
Jesus explains in a 2010 Message that what passes from one generation to another is not guilt.
It is negativity.
“The fact that infants absorb the negativities of ancestors and living adults is just that… It simply conveys this negativity to their soul.” — Jesus
Children absorb the emotional, mental, and spiritual atmosphere surrounding them.
Families pass along fears.
False beliefs.
Habits.
Prejudices.
Traumas.
Patterns of thought.
Cultures reinforce them.
Societies strengthen them.
Generation after generation, these influences are passed from one generation to the next so that they appear to be part of human nature itself.
But they are not.
They are inherited conditions.
Not the soul's original identity.
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The Good News
This distinction transforms the entire question of salvation.
If humanity's problem were an inherited corruption created by God, humanity could do nothing to change it.
But if humanity's condition consists of accumulated negativity and false beliefs, then recovery becomes possible.
Luke writes that these conditions are not part of our true creation.
Jesus compares them to excrescences and parasites attached to the soul rather than belonging to it.
The task is therefore not to become a different creation.
It is to remove what does not belong.
The soul beneath remains what God created.
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Beyond Restoration
The recovery of the lost estate is itself a magnificent hope.
According to Luke and Jesus, humanity can once again become what the first parents were before the Fall.
The perfect human.
Yet the Messages do not end there.
The first parents were offered a Gift beyond natural perfection.
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They declined it.
Through Jesus, that same Gift has once again become available.
Divine Love not only restores.
It awakens.
It purifies.
It transforms.
The soul may become a partaker of the Divine Nature.
The human may become not only the perfect human but the divine angel.
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A Reflection
The doctrine of original sin teaches that humanity begins condemned.
The Messages teach that humanity begins beloved.
The doctrine of original sin says that our deepest identity is corruption.
The Messages say our deepest identity is the soul God created in His image.
Yes, humanity has fallen.
Yes, generations have passed along fear, negativity, ignorance, and false beliefs.
But none of these things define who we truly are.
Beneath every layer of inherited negativity remains the soul that God created.
And through sincere prayer, loving choices, and above all the reception of the Father's Divine Love, that soul may rise once more.
Not merely to recover what was lost.
But to become something greater than humanity has ever been.
Messages from Luke and Jesus follow...
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Thank you for reading, Dear Ones.
Pray for the blessing of the Father's Love to enter your soul. Ask for this Gift. 💖😌💖
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“Thus far I have spoken to you only in parables [about the soul-rebirth to divine men, women, angels]... but a time is coming when I WILL TELL YOU PLAINLY ABOUT THE FATHER.” Jesus (John 16:25)
Love, peace and blessings to you and yours for the coming year, my friends, no matter what the world brings. And may God's Love reign in souls—and on earth—as It does in His Kingdom. 🌿🙏
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Luke - What is necessary for a man to do to recover the purity of soul and love that was possessed by the first parents. Doctrine of original sin is a mocking, damnable lie.
April 27th, 1916, Received by James Padgett, Washington D.C.
I am here, Luke.
I have not written you for some time and desire to write a short message tonight on the subject of: What is necessary for a man to do to recover the purity of soul and love that was possessed by the first parents - I mean as a man possessing the natural love only.
Well, in the first place, he should realize that he is a perfect creature of God, and that his sins and diseases are merely the results of his own thoughts, and of qualities that have come to him down the long ages of his ancestors living on earth.
He need not suppose that these sins and desires are inherent in or a part of his creation, for they are not, but merely accretions that fastened themselves upon him by reason of the thoughts he has had, and the resultant course of life he has led, and when he changes these thoughts, which will necessarily bring about a change in his manner of living, he will find that he can progress toward the condition of the perfect man.
I know that many of these thoughts are so deep seated that they seem almost a part of his very nature, and can only be eradicated by the death of his physical body; but this is not true, for man, even while in the full vigor of his manhood, and possessed with all the appetites and desires which arise from the perverted indulgence of these desires, either on the part of himself or on the part of those from whom he is said to have inherited them, may relieve himself from these desires and become a man, having only the thoughts of good, and desires for those things which are in harmony with the nature of his perfect creation.
This I know, seems to man a thing impossible, and so thinking he does not try to accomplish what I say he may accomplish, and to become free from these sins and unnatural appetites. The almost universal belief in original sin has caused men all along the ages to think that such a task is hopeless, and that they are thinking and acting only in accordance with the appetites and desires that God has implanted in their natures, and that so long as they indulge these thoughts and desires in a moderate or respectable way, they are not doing that which is contrary to God’s Will or to their own nature.
But this doctrine of original sin is a mocking, damnable lie, and the sooner man realizes the fact that it is a fraud and deceit, the sooner he will be able to get rid of those things which have placed him in his present condition and held him there bound, as it were, hand and foot. This supine submission to this old and ever recurring belief is the great thing that prevents man from starting to progress towards the attainment of that condition, which is purity and health and the perfect man.
Man must decline and no longer submit to this belief, which, I am sorry to say, is fostered by the teachings of the orthodox churches in order to sustain and make forcible their creeds and dogmas, and to show to man that he is not to be considered 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 him, unless he believes and acknowledges that he is a dependent and lost man, unworthy of the Father’s favor, or the help of the instrumentalities which the Father uses to assist men in regaining their lost estate.
If men would only think, and in thinking realize that they are dear children of the Father and His highest creation, and that He prizes them above all His creatures and wants them to know that they are beings of such 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 would realize that they are masters of sin and disease, for they are the creators of the same.
When they shall assume such position and become possessed of such knowledge, they will find that they have a wonderful power as creatures of the Father, they will realize that they are masters of sin that must be gotten rid of.
Let men for a moment think again, and thinking know that God does not desire his greatest creature to become or be less than the perfect being that He created. He is not flattered nor does He have any pleasure in the thought that man is degraded and fallen from his perfect creation, and that in order to rise again he, man, must believe that God may show his power in rescuing him from his low and hopeless condition. No, God is not pleased by man assuming such an attitude, nor does he need any such helpless condition of man that he may show His power or gratify what the teachings of these orthodox imply, His vanity, which He has not.
In this particular man must work out his own salvation, but it will be a difficult task so long as he continues to believe and act upon that belief, that he is a creature of original sin, and that as God in the beginning failed to make him the perfect man, so now, only God can remedy what he failed to provide in His creation, and that man of himself can do nothing. That all he has to do is to wait until God is pleased to recreate him and thereby take from his very nature this great curse of the original sin. See the great fatality of such belief and how it tends to make man a slave of and obedient to this false belief in this blight of original sin.
God gave to man in his creation, the great power of will and the right to its unlimited exercise, subject only to the penalties of a wrongful exercise; and by the exercise of that will man created sin and disease and became depraved and fallen, and the possessor of false beliefs as to the perfection of his nature. By the exercise of that will man, himself, must redeem himself from this condition of depravity and false belief, and again become the perfect man - God’s wholly perfect creation.
As man was in the beginning the perfect son of God, and by his own will created his own and only devil, so must he by this same power kill this devil and again become the perfect son. He must believe and declare, and show the sincerity of his beliefs by his acts and living, that he is a perfect son of the Father - needing no new creation.
This I have written to show what man was in the beginning, and what he really and truly is now; although covered with sin and disease and false beliefs. To recover this lost estate or, better, condition, he will find that by searching for and learning and acting upon many of the moral precepts of the Bible and of other so called sacred writings, he will be greatly helped and strengthened in his efforts. But above all let him understand and believe with the certainty of knowledge, that he is God’s highest and most perfect creation.
Now, from what I have said, it must not be inferred that man is his own God, and has not and needs not any tender, loving Father, who is interested in him and always ready to help him whenever he earnestly and in sincerity asks the help of that Father. Always is man dependent upon God; but that dependence is not recognized by God, unless man first recognizes it, and by his longings and thoughts shows to the Father that he needs His help.
This may seem unbelievable, but man was created so independent in his great will power, as regards the dualities of thought and desire both spiritual and material, that God never interferes to compel. The principle involved in “whosoever will” must be exercised by man before the Father will intervene. But when it is exercised He does intervene, and never refuses or fails to answer the call of the sincere cry of man for help.
And God does help man in his recovery from the state of false beliefs and degradation, that I have mentioned. His love overshadows men, and His instrumentalities are always ready and waiting to answer the call upon Him for His help in assisting them out of their condition of sin, disease and false beliefs; for, as I have elsewhere written you, in God’s universe there must be perfect harmony, and the present man, so far as his own creation of inharmony is concerned, is not in that harmony. Ultimately, man, all men, will become again the perfect man.
Of course, you will understand that what I have written does not apply to the redeemed sons of God who receive the New Birth and become partakers of the Divine Nature of the Father, for in their case the perfect man is absorbed in the Divine angel.
I have written longer than I intended, but as the theme is an interesting as well as important one, I thought it best to write just as I have.
I will now say good night and leave with you my Love and blessings.
Your brother in Christ,
Luke
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How a mortal may obtain the development of his soul without the help of the Divine Love.
June 17th, 1916, Received by James Padgett, Washington D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
I see that you are in better condition tonight, and it may be that we can continue the message.
Well, as I was saying, the only way in which a mortal may obtain the development of his soul condition, without the help of the Divine Love, is by attempting to exercise his will in the way that will cause the thoughts of evil and error to leave him, and to be replaced by thoughts that will bring his heart and soul into harmony with the laws of his creation as mere man. This can be done by his seeking for those higher things of morality, and the subordinating of the purely animal desires and appetites of the mortal to the aspirations and desires of the higher and nobler part of his nature.
As I have before told you, man was pure and good until he, by the exercise of his will, following the suggestions of the animal desires, permitted himself to degenerate from the high and perfect condition of his creation. These sins and desires do not belong to his original nature, for his true nature was pure and in harmony with the laws of God. And although he has lost it by the excessive and wrongful exercise of his will, obeying the desires of his animal nature; yet he can recover his condition of original purity and harmony, if he will get rid of these sins and errors, so that his nature may again become free from everything that defiles it, or places it out of harmony with the laws that created it.
So you see, it is not necessary for man to obtain or add to his original condition, any qualities that were not his in the beginning, but merely to get rid of or eradicate from that condition those things which are mere excrescences or parasites - and thereby have his nature in the same condition that was his when he was created, and was the perfect man.
So long a time has the nature or condition of the nature of man been in this state of defilement and alienation from the true condition of his creation, that the effort to bring about the restoration will necessarily be great, and he will have to use all his power of will that he is capable of to effectuate this object, and he will find in such efforts two conflicting forces, always fighting each other for the mastery.
The fact that he believes his present condition is the natural one, and that the state and purity and freedom from sin and error is one that does not belong to him naturally, but must be acquired by adding something to what he now has and always possessed, will make the fight more uneven.
Therefore the first things that man must believe is that his present condition is not his natural one, and that he has nothing more or greater to accomplish than to relieve himself of those things which prevent his condition from becoming as it was when he was the perfect man. If he will get this belief firmly fixed in his mind, and assert that he was made by God, and that God never created anything impure or not in harmony with His laws, he, man, will have accomplished the first step towards his regeneration, and towards success in his effort.
He must not consider himself to be a weak, low and unworthy creature of God, not being entitled to those conditions of purity and greatness which made him the beloved child of the Father. Of course, self-esteem and pride and everything of that nature must be eliminated from the estimate that he must have of himself, but on the contrary the idea that he is degenerated and utterly helpless being must not be permitted to enter his mind. Such thoughts do not make him pleasing to God, as he has been taught they do, but only make him subservient to his masters - sin and error - and prevent him from asserting his own superiority to these things, which is necessary to exist in his conception of his true condition, in order that he may obtain the ascendancy over those masters.
When he shall have assumed this position, then he will realize that these animal appetites and desires, and evil thoughts which arise from them and from the belief that he is by nature degraded and unworthy of a better and higher condition of nature, are really beings of his own creation, and subject to his will and self control - and total destruction. And with such realization will come a consciousness that they are not parts of his nature, but foreign to it; and in order that his nature may become separated from them, he must look upon them as enemies and treat them as such, to be destroyed and utterly extinguished, and never more to be taken to his bosom and cherished as inalienable and dominant parts of his nature.
Of course, in treating them as such enemies, great watchfulness and determination will have to be exercised, for they are very insidious and will at all times and in all ways, whenever the opportunity arises, try to convince him that they are an integral and necessary part of his being, incapable of being separated from him. But by the exercise of this belief, based upon a right conception of what is and what is not a part of him, as the perfect man, and by the exercise of his will power in accordance with this conception, he will be able to rescue himself from these unnatural appetites and desires and thoughts of error and sin.
As this belief becomes stronger and this conception clearer, and his will exercised in closer harmony with the two essentials, these excrescences will gradually and one by one fall away from him, until, at last, he will rise again - the perfect man, with the pure and harmonious nature which God gave him at the time of his creation.
But this process will be slow and sometimes hardly perceptible, for the long years of misbelief in the idea of original sin, and that God created evil and error for the purpose of defiling man’s nature and making a disobedient devil of him, without any inherent goodness or the possibility of becoming regenerated, unless by the operation of some miracle; will make it difficult for the acquiring of the true belief as to what he, and what his nature are, and enable him to become the master, and not remain the servant.
God is the Father of all, and Loves all his children, and as he originally provided for their happiness, so now, he desires that all may be happy, even though they may not seek for that Divine Love which makes mortals and spirits more than the mere perfect man.
Forgiveness is, in effect, forgetfulness; and when men in their efforts cause all these things of evil and sin to cease being a part of their nature, and only thoughts of purity and righteousness to find a lodgment in their minds, then these other things are forgotten and forgiveness has taken place. Man no longer is the slave of false beliefs and unrighteousness, nor is he their associates, and even in memory they become things of nonexistence; and when he gets into this condition of purity and freedom and in harmony with the laws of his creation, there exists nothing which can be the object of forgiveness, and he is the man of perfect creation.
But in all this man must realize that he does not exist by and for himself alone, for always he is surrounded by mortals or spirits or both, exercising upon him their influence for good or evil; helping him to turn his thoughts from these things of evil and sin into those higher things which are his by nature, or causing him to receive and foster these evil thoughts with increased intensity. He cannot get rid of these influences, of one kind or the other, and, hence, he should seek the influence of those who are good and desire to help him in his efforts towards the recovery of that condition which is his by right of birth.
Among God’s laws, which never change and which work impartially, is the great law of attraction; and it works in the case of all mortals and spirits, and never rests. And the great principle of this law is, that like attracts like, and the unlike repulses the unlike. So man must know that as he is - I mean in his state of mind and soul - so necessarily will be his companions of those who desire his association, and, hence, he should realize this important truth and all that it implies.
If his thoughts and deeds are evil, he will attract those spirits or mortals who have similar thoughts and deeds, and who will not help him to higher things, but who will retard his progress towards his first estate; and if his thoughts and deeds are good, then his associates will only be those of like qualities, who can and will help him in his progress.
Every effort to create good thoughts strengthens the desires and will in that direction, and assists the coming of other good thoughts, for with these efforts comes the help of these unseen influences, and the repulsion of the influences of the retarding forces.
Man is a wonderful being and the highest creation of the Father, and yet his greatest master is his belief in the power and supremacy of these things of evil of his own creation. But beyond all this, a means to accomplish man’s restitution to his perfect estate is the help of the Father, which is never refused when man seeks for it in earnest sincere prayer. Always the Father is willing to respond to the true prayers of man, and by His instrumentalities, will make the efforts of man sure and effective, so that he can acquire that condition that will free him from all sin and error and slavery of false belief, in the mastery of his evil creatures.
Man must believe in the Love and help of the Father, in the manhood and greatness of himself, and in the utter error of his belief in the mastery of his own children of sin and error. I have written enough and must stop, as you are tired.
So assuring you of my Love for you, and my care and help, I will say, good night.
Your brother and friend,
Jesus.
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Inherited Negativity and Original Sin.
September 21st, 2010, Berkeley, California, Received by FAB
I am here, Jesus.
Let me channel a message on a subject that has perplexed you, and that is, the comparison of inheriting negativity with the concept of original sin. You have felt they really are the same thing. They are not. Original sin teaches that the original purity and goodness of humanity was permanently altered by the sin of the first parents, and that the only way for humanity to regain its high estate is to believe in Jesus’ atoning sacrifice on the cross.
The fact that infants absorb the negativities of ancestors and living adults is just that, with no identification with the first parents’ behavior. It simply conveys this negativity to their soul. Furthemore, every person has the ability and the power to reverse this negativity, without any belief in the cross, and without any reference to the first parents.
Original sin says that sin came into the world through the first parents’ sin of pride. Well, yes, I see your point. They did establish a pattern. But humanity is not doomed to sin by this first fall; rather, humanity suffers from unfortunate choices, which prevailing social and cultural attitudes enforce. So if you want to give a cause to sin, this cause is not original sin; the cause is simply ignorance.
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