“Re-imagining Jesus for Today” — A Response Posting
“...man has not in him any part of the divine, and never can have, unless he receives and has developed in him, this Divine Love…” — Jesus, May 15, 1917
Hi Friend!
Much of what you said about Jesus I agree with, especially that there is only one God and we are all children of God as Jesus is. You are misstating a few points, though, that are cleared up in his Second Coming Messages from Spirit which have been received for 112 years now through mediums chosen by Jesus and developed in Divine Love. I know you are fine with spiritualism. This is the highest expression of it.
The most important thing is that he became divine, and a true son of God in divine nature, through prayer and soul-reception of God's Gift, His Soul-Essence of Divine Love (agápe in the Greek) that He offered to the first parents (who refused) and re-bestowed on all humanity with the coming of Jesus and his complete transformation to divinity in It while still in the flesh. Many millions have done that since in the spirit world but no others yet on earth.
But there exists no divinity or "divine spark" in man, who was created in God’s Image, as you say, but with none of His Substance, unless and until we ask for It and receive It — free will.
The only Way to the Kingdom of God in the Celestial Heavens
“...It is the Divine Love that contains in itself the divine, which the natural love does not. Many, I know, write and believe that all men, irrespective of the kind of love they have in their souls, possess what they call “the divine spark,” which needs only the proper development to make all men divine. But this conception of the state of man in his natural condition is all wrong, for man has not in him any part of the divine, and never can have, unless he receives and has developed in him, this Divine Love…” Jesus, 5/15/1917
Pantheism is also false.
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"...The preacher says, in substance, that God is everywhere, and His presence may be realized by all who are willing to receive that manifestation, and that whether they are or not willing, that presence exists just the same. This is pantheism, toned down a little by his beliefs in a more personal God, but still pantheism, and wholly wrong and violative of God’s being..." Jesus, 4/7/1919
“…God is of form such as to give Him an Entity and Substance and seat of habitation, in contradistinction to that God which… is said to be everywhere… in the trees and rocks, and thunder and lightning, and in men and beasts… and in whom men are said to live and move and have their being. No, this concept of God is not in accord with the truth, and it is vital to the knowledge and salvation of men that such conception of God be not entertained or believed in…” Jesus, 5/25/1917
“…although it may be surprising and startling to mortals to hear, God has His habitation, and God the Substance, the Self-existing and Soul form, has His locality, and men do not live and move and have their existence in God; but in His emanations and expressions and spirit they do…” Jesus, 5/25/1917
Thank you for an interesting and enlightened article, Cedric.
Blessings for your day, my friend.
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Pray for the blessing of God's Love to enter your soul. Ask for this Gift! 💖😌💖
Messages of Divine Love and Truths for All People (1914–present), soultruth.ca | new-birth.net
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