Some believe exactly that. It was so when A Course In Miracles which is where a lot of this kind of thinking comes from that you mention. It has been promoted that way for 45 years now by some very famous and academic people.

I propose that those who received the material were not prepared for what they had gotten and that Jesus is just trying to lead us back into the presence of God where we came from and have always been.

And you are correct, in my opinion, because I do not believe it can be done without entering a state of mind that he calls the atonement where we are all put on a level playing field and all errors are erased and the only opinion about our worth comes from God Himself.

He alone is LOVE and we really have no clue what that even means at this point in time.