Erroneous Ideas About God

[Jim Spencer]

If we could just grasp the facts that God is infinitely old---billions upon billions of years old, (as is the known universe), that Earth is only one tiny planet in the near infinite universe; that many, many planets have had intelligent civilizations for eons of time----we would cease to believe that somehow--we are "chosen" or unique. What does make Earth unique is the fact of a visit by Michael; who incarnated on Earth in the form of Jesus of Nazareth. Our world is known in the local universe as "the world of the cross". When we can get our arms around the fact of our tiny position---the idea of a God that has been trapped by some good angel turned bad and lost control of the children on this planet---sent His son, who failed, so now he finds another son already here, and gave him the mission to correct his failure-----is completely ridiculous. That belief is putting God in a very small box. Unfortunately, God is a Universal, Eternal, Loving, Fatherly Spirit----and He takes mercy on those children that are actually the ones in the little boxes of their own creation. Michael (Jesus) is upon His throne, with mercy, grace, and forgiveness---waiting for his prodigal children to return to him. When you meet Christ----all fear and uncertainty will disappear from your minds---and you will truly find that peace that passes all understanding. Your hearts will sing with joy, when you at last come home to the one Savior. 

Religious tradition is the imperfectly preserved record of the experiences of the God-knowing men of past  ages, but such records are untrustworthy as guides for religious living or as the source of true information about the Universal Father.  Such ancient beliefs have been invariably altered by the fact that primitive  man was a mythmaker.

One of the greatest sources of confusion on Earth concerning the nature of God grows out of the failure of  your sacred books clearly to distinguish between the personalities of the Paradise Trinity and between Paradise Deity and the local universe creators and administrators. During the past dispensations of partial understanding,  your priests and prophets failed clearly to differentiate between Planetary Princes, System Sovereigns, Constellation Fathers, Creator Sons,  Superuniverse Rulers, the Supreme Being, and the Universal Father.  Many of the messages of  subordinate personalities, such as Life Carriers and various orders of angels, have been,  in your records, presented as coming from God himself. Earth religious thought still confuses the associate personalities of Deity with the  Universal Father himself, so that all are included under one appellation.

The people of Earth continue to suffer from the influence of primitive concepts of  God. The gods who go on a rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who  inflict their judgments of displeasure in times of famine and flood—these are the gods of primitive religion. They are not the Gods who live and rule the universes. Such concepts are a relic of the times when men supposed that the universe was under the guidance and domination  of the whims of such imaginary gods. But mortal man is beginning to realize that he lives in a realm of comparative law and order as far as concerns  the administrative policies and conduct of the Supreme Creators and the Supreme Controllers.

The barbarous idea of appeasing an angry God, of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of Deity  through sacrifices and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a religion wholly puerile and primitive, a philosophy unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth. Such beliefs are utterly repulsive to the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign in the universes.

It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach  that innocent blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious divine wrath.

The Hebrews believed  that "without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sin." They had not found deliverance from the old and pagan idea that the Gods  could not be appeased except by the sight of blood, though Moses did make a distinct advance when he forbade human sacrifices and substituted  therefor, in the primitive minds of his childlike Bedouin followers, the ceremonial sacrifice of animals.

The bestowal of a Paradise Son on your world was inherent in the situation of closing a planetary age; it was  inescapable, and it was not made necessary for the purpose of winning the favor of God. This bestowal also happened to be the final personal act of a  Creator Son in the long adventure of earning the experiential sovereignty of his universe. What a travesty upon the infinite character of God!--- this  teaching that his fatherly heart in all its austere coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and sorrows of his creatures that his  tender mercies were not forthcoming until he saw his blameless Son bleeding and dying upon the cross of Calvary!

But the inhabitants of Earth are to find deliverance from these ancient errors and pagan superstitions  respecting the nature of the Universal Father. The revelation of the truth about God is appearing, and the human race is destined to know the  Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Earth  as the Son of Man and the Son of God.