Jesus is not God. This is first on the list. He never claimed this about himself. He never taught it, and he abhors that people on earth worship him. He is a man as I am a man. He is a child of God just as you are and that we all are. Jesus is our elder brother. This is how he wants us to know him, as a brother and a friend.
Yes, it is true that Jesus is the most developed soul of all God’s children, and this causes many people to want to elevate him and worship him as God. But in doing this, they do harm to him and who he truly is. Jesus worships God, and he desires that we join him in doing the same.
Jesus died, and his death has nothing whatsoever to do with salvation. This is the second aspect of the identity Jesus that needs to be made known. The blood of Jesus does not wash away sins. There is no such thing as a vicarious atonement or a blood sacrifice. Jesus does not save us, at least not in the sense that church people believe and teach.
I migrated from the church many years ago, and many of my beliefs were already in the process of change long before I ever heard of James Padgett. When I did begin to read messages from Jesus given to James Padgett an explosion happened within me, an explosion of light and truth and love.
In the view of many people, I did wrong just to read messages from the spirit world. The fact that I choose to read spirit communications immediately placed the word “heretic” upon me.
I know. It is said that inspiration comes only from the Bible and from so-called “church fathers”. Jesus and his apostles, the writers of the New Testament, want us to know that the Bible is wrong in many particulars. Most of what they did say is not recorded in the Bible, and much of what is in the Bible they never said. Because of these errors an entire Christendom was created that is completely wrong.
It is believed that inspiration direct from Jesus and the apostles does not exist. It is believed that such communication stopped 2000 years ago. Nonsense; not true. Not only me, but many other people have and do receive direct communication from Jesus and apostles and from a host of other people who once lived on earth, but now live in the life beyond our present physical existence.
Jesus and his apostles have been trying for hundreds of years to bring the truth to mankind, but have met with little success.
More on this later, as I continue with my notes from the diary of a heretic …
– Joseph