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[Anonymous No.14453103]

Will you read the Urantia papers in 2020?

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28:5.8.
It is written, "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask."

[Anonymous No.14453112]

No I will not read it

[Anonymous No.14453154]

>>14453112
ok

[Anonymous No.14453185]

metaphysical fanfiction

[Anonymous No.14453244]

haven't even gotten started with dialectics.org yet

[Anonymous No.14453861]

>>14453185
5. The Urantia Papers. The papers, of which this is one, constitute the most recent presentation of truth to the mortals of Urantia. These papers differ from all previous revelations, for they are not the work of a single universe personality but a composite presentation by many beings. But no revelation short of the attainment of the Universal Father can ever be complete. All other celestial ministrations are no more than partial, transient, and practically adapted to local conditions in time and space. While such admissions as this may possibly detract from the immediate force and authority of all revelations, the time has arrived on Urantia when it is advisable to make such frank statements, even at the risk of weakening the future influence and authority of this, the most recent of the revelations of truth to the mortal races of Urantia.

[Anonymous No.14453864]

>>14453244
>dialectics

[Anonymous No.14453878]

>>14453244
I thought this was a scientology post at first
what is this?

[Anonymous No.14453906]

>>14453103
Martin Gardner behaved very strange on the Urantia Book.
It is known that he is a James Randi-type exposer, it is not a surprising thing that he hated, and claimed it was manipulated. But the way of hating this book is very awkward.
In the critique he often awestrucked. filled with some sort of admiration and respect on the book, he wrote on how much knowledge they should have of the Bible if they could manipulate like this, and he wondered at how well they had to choose what to manipulate in order to include such minor scientific theories.
Imagine a father frantically detailing pornographic films for days to convince his son of the harm of pornographic films. It was as if there were other hidden intentions.

[Anonymous No.14453926]

>>14453906
intersesting insight

>The Urantia Book is noted for its high level of internal consistency and an advanced writing style. Skeptic Martin Gardner, in a book otherwise highly critical of The Urantia Book, writes that it is "highly imaginative" and that the "cosmology outrivals in fantasy the cosmology of any science-fiction work known to me."[71]

>Martin Gardner considers Part IV to be an especially "well-written, impressive work," and says, "Either it is accurate in its history, coming directly from higher beings in position to know, or it is a work of fertile imagination by someone who knew the New Testament by heart and who was also steeped in knowledge of the times when Jesus lived."[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#Consideration_as_literature

[Anonymous No.14453932]

>>14453103
What is the significance of urantia, is it another religion, what is its relationship with established religions? What is its concept of God, what is its method of spiritual realization?

[Anonymous No.14453934]

>>14453878
All that is just basic algebra, going up to tensors, arranged to look spiritual and metaphysical.

[Anonymous No.14453966]

>>14453932
>What is the significance of urantia
(0:0.2) ...to present enlarged concepts and advanced truth, in our endeavor to expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception

>is it another religion
I'm not sure. The book itself claims to be an epochal revelation of God, and it propounds upon 'revealed religion'.

>what is its relationship with established religions?
(100:6.9) The characteristic difference between evolved and revealed religion is a new quality of divine wisdom which is added to purely experiential human wisdom. But it is experience in and with the human religions that develops the capacity for subsequent reception of increased bestowals of divine wisdom and cosmic insight.

[Anonymous No.14453978]

>>14453932
>What is its concept of God
3:6.7.The infinite and eternal Ruler of the universe of universes is power, form, energy, process, pattern, principle, presence, and idealized reality. But he is more; he is personal; he exercises a sovereign will, experiences self-consciousness of divinity, executes the mandates of a creative mind, pursues the satisfaction of the realization of an eternal purpose, and manifests a Father's love and affection for his universe children.

>what is its method of spiritual realization?
(5:2.3) The divine presence cannot, however, be discovered anywhere in nature or even in the lives of God-knowing mortals so fully and so certainly as in your attempted communion with the indwelling Mystery Monitor, the Paradise Thought Adjuster. What a mistake to dream of God far off in the skies when the spirit of the Universal Father lives within your own mind!

(5:1.3) ...you should rejoice in the recognition of the ever-present possibility of immediate communion with the bestowal spirit of the Father so intimately associated with your inner soul and your spiritualizing self.

[Anonymous No.14454208]

>>14453932
>What is its concept of God

1:2.1.God is primal reality in the spirit world; God is the source of truth in the mind spheres; God overshadows all throughout the material realms. To all created intelligences God is a personality, and to the universe of universes he is the First Source and Center of eternal reality. God is neither manlike nor machinelike. The First Father is universal spirit, eternal truth, infinite reality, and father personality.

1:2.2.The eternal God is infinitely more than reality idealized or the universe personalized. God is not simply the supreme desire of man, the mortal quest objectified. Neither is God merely a concept, the power-potential of righteousness. The Universal Father is not a synonym for nature, neither is he natural law personified. God is a transcendent reality, not merely man's traditional concept of supreme values. God is not a psychological focalization of spiritual meanings, neither is he "the noblest work of man." God may be any or all of these concepts in the minds of men, but he is more. He is a saving person and a loving Father to all who enjoy spiritual peace on earth, and who crave to experience personality survival in death.

[Anonymous No.14454226]

5:4.1.The morality of the religions of evolution drives men forward in the God quest by the motive power of fear. The religions of revelation allure men to seek for a God of love because they crave to become like him. But religion is not merely a passive feeling of "absolute dependence" and "surety of survival"; it is a living and dynamic experience of divinity attainment predicated on humanity service.

5:4.2.The great and immediate service of true religion is the establishment of an enduring unity in human experience, a lasting peace and a profound assurance. With primitive man, even polytheism is a relative unification of the evolving concept of Deity; polytheism is monotheism in the making. Sooner or later, God is destined to be comprehended as the reality of values, the substance of meanings, and the life of truth.

5:4.3.God is not only the determiner of destiny; he is man's eternal destination. All nonreligious human activities seek to bend the universe to the distorting service of self; the truly religious individual seeks to identify the self with the universe and then to dedicate the activities of this unified self to the service of the universe family of fellow beings, human and superhuman.

5:4.4.The domains of philosophy and art intervene between the nonreligious and the religious activities of the human self. Through art and philosophy the material-minded man is inveigled into the contemplation of the spiritual realities and universe values of eternal meanings.

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