/lit/ - Literature

>>14852374
Is it safe to read it as a Christian, though?

>>14852395
Safe? It will challenge faith in traditionalism, ecclesiasticism, and biblical literalism or bibliolatry.
But it should only strengthen your faith and love for God and Jesus.

Urantia is advanced Christianity; about a third of this 2000 page tome is dedicated to the life and teachings of Jesus.

>>14852421
Interesting. I'll check it out.

What's difference between the Urantia and The Bible?

>>14852421
so heresy?

>>14852504
Yes.
But the various Church teachings are incomplete, partially erroneous, and fallible.
Urantia corrects this greatly, and upsteps the spiritual wisdom and truth that any Church dogmas or doctrines may contain.

>>14852504
4:5.1.Religious tradition is the imperfectly preserved record of the experiences of the God-knowing men of past ages, but such records are untrustworthy as guides for religious living or as the source of true information about the Universal Father. Such ancient beliefs have been invariably altered by the fact that primitive man was a mythmaker.


195:10.8.Ecclesiasticism is at once and forever incompatible with that living faith, growing spirit, and firsthand experience of the faith-comrades of Jesus in the brotherhood of man in the spiritual association of the kingdom of heaven. The praiseworthy desire to preserve traditions of past achievement often leads to the defense of outgrown systems of worship. The well-meant desire to foster ancient thought systems effectually prevents the sponsoring of new and adequate means and methods designed to satisfy the spiritual longings of the expanding and advancing minds of modern men.

>>14852504
99:6.3.But as religion becomes institutionalized, its power for good is curtailed, while the possibilities for evil are greatly multiplied. The dangers of formalized religion are: fixation of beliefs and crystallization of sentiments; accumulation of vested interests with increase of secularization; tendency to standardize and fossilize truth; diversion of religion from the service of God to the service of the church; inclination of leaders to become administrators instead of ministers; tendency to form sects and competitive divisions; establishment of oppressive ecclesiastical authority; creation of the aristocratic "chosen-people" attitude; fostering of false and exaggerated ideas of sacredness; the routinizing of religion and the petrification of worship; tendency to venerate the past while ignoring present demands; failure to make up-to-date interpretations of religion; entanglement with functions of secular institutions; it creates the evil discrimination of religious castes; it becomes an intolerant judge of orthodoxy; it fails to hold the interest of adventurous youth and gradually loses the saving message of the gospel of eternal salvation.

>>14852374
Take the Muggletonianism pill.

1) There is no God but the glorified Man Christ Jesus.
2) There is no Devil but the unclean Reason of men.
3) Heaven is an infinite abode of light above and beyond the stars.
4) The place of Hell will be this Earth when sun, moon and stars are extinguished.
5) Angels are the only beings of Pure Reason.
6) The Soul dies with the body and will be raised with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggletonianism

>>14852496
Imagine The Bible (which has lovely poetry/prose and has inspired many works) and then with that same bible, take a shit, puke, and orgasm on it at the same time.

>>14852496

Bible: Human authors

Urantia: Angel authors

>>14852504


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1wda0BKgYg

>>14852779
Human authors led and inspired by the Holy ghost.

>>14853056
Acknowledgment
0:12.11.In formulating the succeeding presentations having to do with the portrayal of the character of the Universal Father and the nature of his Paradise associates, together with an attempted description of the perfect central universe and the encircling seven superuniverses, we are to be guided by the mandate of the superuniverse rulers which directs that we shall, in all our efforts to reveal truth and co-ordinate essential knowledge, give preference to the highest existing human concepts pertaining to the subjects to be presented. We may resort to pure revelation only when the concept of presentation has had no adequate previous expression by the human mind.

0:12.12.Successive planetary revelations of divine truth invariably embrace the highest existing concepts of spiritual values as a part of the new and enhanced co-ordination of planetary knowledge. Accordingly, in making these presentations about God and his universe associates, we have selected as the basis of these papers more than one thousand human concepts representing the highest and most advanced planetary knowledge of spiritual values and universe meanings. Wherein these human concepts, assembled from the God-knowing mortals of the past and the present, are inadequate to portray the truth as we are directed to reveal it, we will unhesitatingly supplement them, for this purpose drawing upon our own superior knowledge of the reality and divinity of the Paradise Deities and their transcendent residential universe.

>>14852496

>What's difference between the Urantia and The Bible?
The Bible ==========Christianity 1.0 (Christian)
The Urantia Papers===Christianity 2.0 (SuperChristian)

Christians love Jesus
SuperChristians worship the Father

TDLR
Thus does the so-called Christian church become the cocoon in which the kingdom of Jesus' concept now slumbers.

The Urantia book

>[Paper :Section. Paragraph]
>[170:5.21]
Mistake not! there is in the teachings of Jesus an eternal nature which will not permit them forever to remain unfruitful in the hearts of thinking men. The kingdom as Jesus conceived it has to a large extent failed on earth; for the time being, an outward church has taken its place; but you should comprehend that this church is only the larval stage of the thwarted spiritual kingdom, which will carry it through this material age and over into a more spiritual dispensation where the Master's teachings may enjoy a fuller opportunity for development. Thus does the so-called Christian church become the cocoon in which the kingdom of Jesus' concept now slumbers. The kingdom of the divine brotherhood is still alive and will eventually and certainly come forth from this long submergence, just as surely as the butterfly eventually emerges as the beautiful unfolding of its less attractive creature of metamorphic development.

>>14852496

>What's difference between the Urantia and The Bible?
The Bible ==========Christianity 1.0 (Christian)
The Urantia Papers===Christianity 2.0 (SuperChristian)

Christians love Jesus
SuperChristians worship the Father (and love Jesus)

TDLR
Thus does the so-called Christian church become the cocoon in which the kingdom of Jesus' concept now slumbers.

The Urantia book

>[Paper :Section. Paragraph]
>[170:5.21]
Mistake not! there is in the teachings of Jesus an eternal nature which will not permit them forever to remain unfruitful in the hearts of thinking men. The kingdom as Jesus conceived it has to a large extent failed on earth; for the time being, an outward church has taken its place; but you should comprehend that this church is only the larval stage of the thwarted spiritual kingdom, which will carry it through this material age and over into a more spiritual dispensation where the Master's teachings may enjoy a fuller opportunity for development. Thus does the so-called Christian church become the cocoon in which the kingdom of Jesus' concept now slumbers. The kingdom of the divine brotherhood is still alive and will eventually and certainly come forth from this long submergence, just as surely as the butterfly eventually emerges as the beautiful unfolding of its less attractive creature of metamorphic development.