The Urantia Book

Few of these practices survived the subsequent disintegration of planetary insurrection. The Urantia Book sometimes called The Urantia Papers or The Fifth Epochal Revelation is a , , and book that originated in sometime between 1924 and 1955. Each local universe was formed and is ruled by a Creator Son.

In March 1957, Sadler was appointed as the superintendent of Barboursville State Hospital in , where he stayed until July 1958. And many of the stones on which this law was inscribed now lie beneath the waters off the shores of Mesopotamia and It became the custom to hold one of these commands in mind for each day of the week, using it for salutations and mealtime thanksgiving. And those who follow its teachings are according to the apostle Paul.

The Urantia Book - But he illuminates the fact that the Kellogg family and their close circle of friends were formerly devout Seventh Day Adventists who had become disillusioned with their prophet, Ellen White. Many Urantians were disappointed.

The Urantia Book For printing our articles please copy the web page by highlighting the text first - then click copy in the browser- paste the article into a word program on your computer. When the text is transferred into word, click to save or print. The Urantia Book The Urantia book is a momentous work consisting of 2,097 pages of material received from numerous celestial beings supposedly brought to the earth by superhuman, divine beings in 1934. The name of any person who received the content of the book has never been revealed, and all are now deceased. The means by which the papers were materialized was unique and is unknown to any living person. The Founder is a noted Chicago physician and psychiatrist Dr. The Urantia Book was delivered to him by seven spirit beings in 1934. Between 1934 and 1956 a group of 36 people, who called themselves the Forum, met to study the original manuscripts of the Urantia Book. They incorporated in 1950 as the Urantia Foundation and the book was first published on October 12 1955. In 1996, the Foundation required the Brotherhood to stop using its name; they changed it to the Fifth Epochal Fellowship. The Foundation relented in 1999, and the Fellowship then changed its name to the Urantia Fellowship. Herein lies the first contradictory teaching to the Bible which warns of Spiritism Deut. King Saul when he no longer was hearing from God sought out a medium to communicate. The Bible explains that the Holy Spirit through its authors have given us God's word for all time. It is complete 2 Tim. The apostle warns of anyone giving any other gospel that counters the Bible Gal. The purported superhuman authorship of the book is the basis upon which it claims to reveal data that would be inaccessible to mortal man. It asserts it was received through spirit dictation and preaches universality of all religions. The Urantia Book brochure Urantia Foundation, 1955. Just as animals evolved into humans, humans destined to evolve into spirit beings, called finaliters. In this way there is no authoritative truth but only measured by it subjective effect on an individual. The book consists of deep and profound philosophical ramblings and shrewd conglomerations of Bible stories and history, as well as other religions. It certainly has the air of being given by a higher intelligence, one that is able to manipulate words and concepts far beyond any human being. At first when reading it Depending on which portion , it seems biblical and even possible as it proposes new information about God. Much like the book of Mormon it offers more knowledge on Jesus, the destiny of man, our relationship to God and our planet and the universes history. It is very deceptive as it is shrouded in both biblical and esoteric language and for the ungrounded in truth it can be an false influence. The only book that is comparable is the channeled book the Course of Miracles. However it is an infant compared to this book. Its purpose is to challenge and distort the Bible as it constantly changes events and persons to be something else. Using the premise and principles and even biblical language these being s manipulate the Scripture to a whole new system that only the intelligencia is able to come near to comprehend. When I say near, I mean that even the short sentences are soaked with a plethora of complex spiritual mumbo jumbo that seems to first make sense but its context still eludes you. Of course I can be dismissed as a spiritual infant unable to understand its meaning, yet this is my position and reading the quotes you will see what I mean. The book is divided into four main sections. Part I describes the central and super universe God as Father, Universal Spirit and Trinity, and various spirit entities. Part 2 deals with our local universe, Nebadon, whose capital is Salvington and has 10 million inhabited worlds. The book tells of the origin and evolution of the central and super-universes, our local universe and the history of our planet Urantia; located in super universe Orvonton, whose capital is Uversa. Part 3 is a history of Urantia, which is the name by which the earth is known to the other beings. Part IV contains a biography of Jesus Seven hundred pages including a detailed discussion of the hidden years from age twelve to the beginning of his public ministry. According to The Urantia Book, Jesus was born August 21, 7 B. After more than three years, his ministry ended in the crucifixion and resurrection. The Urantia Book teaches that these beings were created by a God who wished to share the joy and adventure of being to the furthest extent possible. This God dwells in the Isle of Paradise located in the center of the universe of universes. There is evolution taking place in the many universes involving both matter and personalities. These personalities exist on millions of planets and spheres. The universe depicted in the Urantia Book has seven levels. The first level, the Isle of Paradise, is the center of the universe around which the other levels form six concentric ellipses. I would suggest that any extensive reading should be done with a bottle of aspirin close at hand. Next to Havona is the Grand Universe which includes seven Superuniverses, each containing 700,000 local universes. Those Superuniverses revolve around Havona. A local universe called Nebadon lies on the outer edge of the Superuniverse named Orvonton. From here there is a countdown of various years and stages for the creation of the universe and the earth. The planet had attained approximately its present size. And about this time it was placed upon the physical registries of Nebadon and given its name, Urantia. Such as Sanat Kumura- notice the same Satania both having the word Satan in it. Is it coincidence or possibly a fingerprint that he is involved? This commission consisted of twenty-four members, embracing Life Carriers, Lanonandek Sons, Melchizedeks, seraphim, and other orders of celestial life having to do with the early days of planetary organization and administration. What they are proposing is a start of life in this sector of the Galaxy. If someone made a sci-fi picture out of this it would probably do well. Michael could hardly come to Urantia until there existed a people believing in the Universal Father among whom he could appear. They have many deities- Supreme Beings, Ascending Beings, Sons of God, and sub divine beings ad infinitum. Within each Order there may be anywhere from a few thousand to many millions of beings The Urantia Book, pp. The Urantia Book speaks of a Trinity of Trinities, three sets of three deities. One Trinity is existential actual and without origin , and the other two are experiential potential and with origin. The existential Trinity is called the Paradise Trinity and consists of the Universal Father, the Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit. The Universal Father is considered creator, controller and upholder of all things. Both Trinities are finite, derived and evolving. At some point in the eternal future those two Trinities, when actualized, will complement the personalities of the Paradise Trinity p. Celestial designations are given describing spiritual positions and places such as Salvington, Divington, Nebadon. Divinington is the Paradise rendezvous of the Thought Adjusters, but it is also the home of numerous other entities, personalities, and other beings taking origin in the Universal Father. Many personalities besides the Eternal Son are of direct origin by the solitary acts of the Universal Father. Each local universe was formed and is ruled by a Creator Son. Although they are all unique, they all embody the characteristics of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. They are all part of the Order of Michael. Prior to His Earthly life, Jesus' real name was Michael of Nebadon. Jesus perfected his divinity by seven incarnations among various creatures of the Universe. His seventh incarnation on Urantia as Michael of Nebadon p. Jesus Michael is the Son of the Son of God and the Father in the sense that when these two beings had a simultaneous original thought for the 611,121st time, Jesus Michael was begotten. The book of Urantia teaches of the hidden years of Christ, from age twelve to his public ministry. His purpose was to help us mortals realize that we too are sons of God. He is the wayshower, he is the creator of our local universe, and his incarnation on Urantia was the seventh time he had come to live among creatures of his universe. All descending Sons of God have high and divine origins p. Of the numerous orders of descending Sons, seven will be depicted in these narratives. Those Sons who come forth from the Deities on the central Isle of Light and Life are called the Paradise Sons of God and embrace the following three orders: 1 Creator Sons--the Michaels; 2 Magisterial Sons--the Avonals; and 3 Trinity Teacher Sons--the Daynals. As they function in the superuniverse of Orvonton, the Sons of God are classified under three general heads: 1 the descending Sons of God; 2 the ascending Sons of God; and the trinitized Sons of God. Such ancient beliefs have been invariably altered by the fact that primitive man was a mythmaker. Keep in mind that they claim all the religious books are corrupted, lest it become to obvious that it is an attack on the Bibles authority only. But this is exactly what we find interlaced throughout its pages. We are told Christ toured the Roman Empire with two people from India in the years preceding his ministry. Jesus has six instead of the Bibles three years of ministry. It is these two points the attack is focused on Person and the work of Christ. The New Testament affirms is essential to salvation without it there is no Christianity. The source of the book is well aware of Bibles teaching and does not stop to distort or belittle it. The substitutionary atonement are viewed in the revelation of the Urantia book as grotesque invented by primitive men. The cross was wholly man's doing, not God's requirement- Basic concepts, P. This is the same concept promoted by Benjamen Crème a New Ager who thinks of the Christian religion as worthless having a blood sacrifice. Romans 5:9, Ephesians 1:7, Hebrews 9:22. Speaking of Moses Heb. Joshua and the leaders of Israel continued to harbor the Mosaic traditions of the all-wise, beneficent, and almighty God, but the common people rapidly reverted to the older desert idea of Yahweh. And this backward drift of the concept of Deity continued increasingly under the successive rule of the various tribal sheiks, the so-called Judges. The underlying message Their goal and message is to unify all religions and have them abandon their particular teachings for another spiritual unity. Modern man must develop new techniques of achieving the self-consciousness of salvation. The consciousness of sin persists in the mortal mind, but the thought patterns of salvation therefrom have become outworn and antiquated. There is no real sin in the absence of conscious disloyalty to Deity. That it is inherent in our nature. The Urantia Book challenges this. The forgiveness does not have to be sought, only received as the consciousness of re-establishment of loyalty relations between the creature and the Creator. In central Asia the tribesmen still look for the return of Genghis Khan; in Tibet, China, and India it is Buddha; in Islam it is Mohammed; among the Amerinds it was Hesunanin Onamonalonton; with the Hebrews it was, in general, Adam's return as a material ruler. When a Son of God becomes a Son of Man, is literally born of woman, as occurred on your world nineteen hundred years ago, it is a universal mystery. It is occurring right along throughout the universes, and it is a Sonarington secret of divine sonship. The Adjusters are a mystery of God the Father. The incarnation of the divine Sons is a mystery of God the Son; it is a secret locked up in the seventh sector of Sonarington, a realm penetrated by none save those who have personally passed through this unique experience. Again it attacks the unique Son of God. The Bibles message of Jesus as the unique Son of God is challenged, as are the authors. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. No shepherds nor any other mortal creatures came to pay homage to the babe of Bethlehem until the day of the arrival of certain priests from Ur, who were sent down from Jerusalem by Zacharias. Zacharias who was John the baptizers father certainly did not have contact with UR. The challenge of the Scripture is consistently seen throughout this book. He attained an idealistic religious life in the Very midst of a realistic world: Jesus did not share Paul's pessimistic view of humankind. The Master looked upon men as the sons of God and foresaw a magnificient and eternal future' for those who chose survival. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. That they were passing through to be with him later on and not to love the world. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. During his twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth years on Earth, Jesus toured the Roman world, accompanied by two natives from India p. This implies as other books that he may have been familiar with the eastern concept of reincarnation and other teachings and that he did not teach Judaism. The race for perfection is on! Whosoever will may enter, and certain victory will crown the efforts of every human being who will run the race of faith and trust, depending every step of the way on the leading of the indwelling Adjuster and on the guidance of the good spirit of the Universal Son, which so freely has been poured out upon all flesh. As we can see they use biblical terms and phrases to make it a competitor for the truth. And this is the good news of the gospel: that by faith every mortal may- have all these essentials of salvation. This is pantheism and is the pagan belief that they so readily reject in the book. Having a fragment of God's spirit dwells within each person is called a Thought Adjuster. That is to guide the individual towards greater spiritual understanding through many lives as they evolve on other worlds. As this love-comprehension of Deity finds spiritual expression in the lives of God-knowing mortals, there are yielded the fruits of divinity: intellectual peace, social progress, moral satisfaction, spiritual joy, and cosmic wisdom. The advanced mortals on a world in the seventh stage of light and life have learned that love is the greatest thing in the universe -- and they know that God is love. Love is not the greatest thing in the universe, God is. Man finding God and God finding man -- the creature becoming perfect as is the Creator -- that is the supernal achievement of the supremely beautiful, the attainment of the apex of cosmic art. After this life we pass on through millions of other spheres of training. The next one is the mansion worlds of Satania. All this life experience of both ascenders mortals and descenders is gradually bring synthesized and coordinated into an evolving, universal consciousness. Eventually to be personalized as the Supreme Bring. Attaining the presence of the Universal Father and helping to actualize the Ultimate Trinity is the goal and the end of a person's spiritual journey. The early form of Gnosticism posited that a system of spirit beings emanate from God and exert authority over people's lives. Havona is an existential, perfect, and replete universe, surrounding the home of the eternal Deities, the center of all things. The creations of the seven superuniverses are finite, evolutionary, and consistently progressive. The Jews synthesized all gods into their more sublime concept of the Lord God of Israel. Divinington is the Paradise rendezvous of the Thought Adjusters, Many personalities besides the Eternal Son are of direct origin by the solitary acts of the Universal Father. Only the Father fragments and those personalities and other beings of direct and exclusive origin in the Universal Father fraternize and function on this abode. That indwelling spirit or fragment of God is called a Thought Adjuster. They are not created but proceed directly from the Father. Contact with the lowly creatures of the evolutionary worlds is a secret of this Paradise sphere. It is the Paradise headquarters of the descending and ascending Sons of God when, and after, they are fully accredited and finally approved. This world is the Paradise home for all Sons of the Eternal Son and of his co-ordinate and associate Sons. We need to ask how would God speak to humanity if he wanted to communicate with the average person on earth. Would it be beyond our means of understanding like the Urantia book is written or like the Bible is written. The Urantia book is nothing less than new age gnostic enlightenment with a space age twist. It attracts the pride of man. It is deceptive in its approach by claiming to correct all religious books, as well as challenging God as the author and keeper of His truth found in the Bible. And those who follow its teachings are according to the apostle Paul. The real issue comes down to authority. One trusting a book whose authors are unknown who claim superior knowledge of past events changing the people and places to be what they want. Or do we trust the eyewitnesses and the authors of the accounts of Jesus with its accurate history kept by the Holy Spirit of God. Is it any wonder the Urantia book calls them holy spirit adjusters, since this other spirit wants to revision everything God has said. Reliability of Scripture is denied and challenged. Time has not changed his ways. Since the Urantia book presents a Jesus that is not the same as the Bible, it cannot be God inspired nor accurate on what it adds to the Bible. 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They were trained to fraternize with younger groups, older groups, and adults, as well as to do teamwork with those of their own ages. They judged their advisers by their own evolving selfishness. The Urantia Book provides a comprehensive overview of the context in which urantia papers live our daily lives -- historical, social, personal, intellectual, spiritual, and material. Sadler's early writings about health are similar to ideas advanced by John Kellogg, for the concept ofand the idea that has negative. And about this time it was placed upon the physical registries of Nebadon and given its name, Urantia. Universe Organization According to the Urantia Papers the material universe is finite and has a central abode of enormous proportions which custodes as the gravitational stabilizer and headquarters of deity. Immediately surrounding the city, hundreds of graduates of the Prince's schools engaged in animal husbandry and otherwise carried out the instruction they had received from his staff and their numerous human helpers. These spheres are the spawning ground, the evolutionary sin, of the mortal races of time and space. In 1958, Urantia papers published a defense of the book, citing his experience exposing frauds and maintaining that the book was free of contradictions. The seven-day week was introduced by the Dalamatia teachers and grew out of the between that seven was one fourth of twenty-eight.