/lit/ - Literature

>>16426057
>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."
>Parts I, II, and III are chiefly written in expository language. The papers are informational, matter-of-fact, and instructional.
>Part IV of the book is written as a biography of Jesus' life, and some feel it is a rich narrative with well-developed characters, high attention to detail, woven sub-plots, and realistic dialogue
>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."

Its too coherent and sophisticated to simply be dismissed as 'schizo nonsense'.
Its either a very elaborate hoax (the real author is still not known to this day) or it really is from divine non-human authorship.
Regardless it is a masterpiece of literature even if you take it as spiritual science fiction, but if it actually is what it claims to be then the implications are profound.

>>15726110
>>15726214
The greatest spiritual book you will ever read, it will challenge your beliefs about God, Jesus, religion, the nature and meaning of life, and the history of the planet and civilization.

Parts of the book are mighty pleb-filters, though the papers do flow into each other its not necessary to read it linearly. I would look at the contents page and start reading whatever piques your interest.

>>15203797
it is based

The Bible on steroids