The people of the most ancient church were truly Godly and even spoke with Angels, but that dispensation eventually decended into hellish ways, wanting to credit themselves for anything virtuous instead of God. Every dispensation since theirs did likewise as humanity fell further from God until they inverted good and evil and no longer could tell truth from falsity nor good from evil. Our dispensation reflects all of the prior via inherited evil. Never again always crumbles. We can reverse this trend but it takes a total commitment to credit the Lord in every moment for each breath, thought, feeling, deed and to follow His precepts to love Him above all else and love others at least as much as self. No generation has achieved this innocent state. The Divine is innocence itself, so the Lord commands us to be as little children in order to enter His Kingdom.Each moment presents a choice to be innocent in His Presence. He enables us but we must cooperate with our Savior.