Taken from Predictions and Prophecies – chapter 17
“What is religion and where does it have its place in what we do and the world? Is religion necessary for you to eventually come to where we are now or can this world also be for those of no belief?
This is something we know confuses many people as your world has so many different religions and none. What we will tell you of this is as follows. For those who wish to follow their particular religion this is good. For those who wish to follow none, this is also good. What is important though, is what is in the hearts of each.
There are those of your world who prefer to be very religious people and to believe in God and the hereafter, and yet they lead such bad lives with hearts of stone. Then we have those who say they believe in nothing and that there is no afterlife; that what they see here with you in your world is all there is and that there is nothing more. Yet some of these people are the ones who can have pure hearts and goodness throughout them.
Which of these people is better? Is it the one who professes to know God and yet ignores Him and all His teachings, or is it the one who says he knows nothing of Him and yet does all that is asked of mankind? We tell you now, what is the most important is how one lives, not how they show themselves to the world.
To those who say they hate religion and that all religion is bad, we say the badness is within you and this is why it is all you see. If you were not bad people yourselves, you would see it is not religion that is bad, but people within it. Who are you we ask, who decides what is right for another to believe in? If they are causing no harm, not deceiving people or hurting them, then what they do is nothing to do with you. Look to yourselves first and see what your life is like and how you live it.
There are many things wrong in religion today and this is within all of them not just one or two. Badness, corruption and evil; yes dear friends, pure evil exists within some of these religions of today’s world, but this has always been the same way and will never change. To say evil is within something that is meant to be of God is a dreadful thing to behold, but where there is man, there will always be badness, for this is what we know has to be.
There are those who have come to us who knew nothing of God or our world and yet once here have elected to come back to your world and teach others. Their lives are very different now to what they were before and this is what can be for all of you.
Some will progress in different lives and some will not progress ever to reach the eyes of God. This is because they choose it to be that way. Even when they come to us and we show them the errors of their ways and how they can be redressed, they choose the ways of the world rather than the riches they could have here.
They are the ones who will often become trapped in your world after their passing. The world you live in means far more to them than all the riches here where we are. They too can have a chance to change their minds eventually, as all is not lost for them. Some will do so, but not all will.
People ask about wars and why religion is often at the centre of them all. They are not the cause at all, this is man again at work and they use religion as their excuse to fight for supremacy.
Those who use religion as an excuse to cause wars or fighting are not fighting for God or in His name, but are doing it for their own good and what they will achieve at the end of it. God may get angry, He may punish where punishment is needed or due, but He does not ask man to kill for Him, as it is not for man to take another man’s life…”
