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[Anonymous No.15835961]

Scientists assemble facts, philosophers co-ordinate ideas, while prophets exalt ideals.


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[Anonymous No.15836319]

cringe

[Anonymous No.15836321]

Imagine the Bible, written in the modern age, but by angelic beings instead of mortal humans. Thats the Urantia book.

[Anonymous No.15836328]

>>15836319
Its not, its very based.

[Anonymous No.15836332]

>>15835961
can someone just explain wtf this book is?

[Anonymous No.15836339]

>>15836332

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

[Anonymous No.15836375]

>>15836339
seems pretty interesting. is it actually worth reading the full thing tho?

[Anonymous No.15836410]

Is this a weird synthesis of the bible and new age?

[Anonymous No.15836466]

>>15836375
Sure but some parts are plebfilters and you dont really have to read it linearly although some areas have a linear progression to the papers; you can just look at the contents and read what interests you.

[Anonymous No.15836471]

>>15836466
I want 2 start with the part on Christs life, can I just do that ?

[Anonymous No.15836494]

>>15836410
Not really.
A third of the 2000 page book is a retelling of the life and teachings of Jesus and there are a lot of redpills concerning the Bible and such, but it contains a lot more also.
Also I dont think its really newage, just because its a modern religious phenomena doesnt mean its necessarily newage.

(196:2.1) Some day a reformation in the Christian church may strike deep enough to get back to the unadulterated religious teachings of Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. You may preach a religion about Jesus, but, perforce, you must live the religion of Jesus. In the enthusiasm of Pentecost, Peter unintentionally inaugurated a new religion, the religion of the risen and glorified Christ. The Apostle Paul later on transformed this new gospel into Christianity, a religion embodying his own theologic views and portraying his own personal experience with the Jesus of the Damascus road. The gospel of the kingdom is founded on the personal religious experience of the Jesus of Galilee; Christianity is founded almost exclusively on the personal religious experience of the Apostle Paul. Almost the whole of the New Testament is devoted, not to the portrayal of the significant and inspiring religious life of Jesus, but to a discussion of Paul's religious experience and to a portrayal of his personal religious convictions. The only notable exceptions to this statement, aside from certain parts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are the Book of Hebrews and the Epistle of James. Even Peter, in his writing, only once reverted to the personal religious life of his Master. The New Testament is a superb Christian document, but it is only meagerly Jesusonian.

[Anonymous No.15836500]

>>15836471
yes

[Anonymous No.15836504]

>>15836494
>A third of the 2000 page book is a retelling of the life and teachings of Jesus
>retelling
what is the distintion between "retelling" and making stuff up?

[Anonymous No.15836505]

ANOTHER SHILL THREAD

[Anonymous No.15836548]

>>15836500
Based

Okay.

[Anonymous No.15836554]

>>15836504
Thats for you to decide.
Its possible they are making it up and its possible it is accurate.
Its either a grand hoax by evil geniuses with its advanced writing style, coherency, and in depth knowledge of the times of Jesus, or it is what it claims to be.

[Anonymous No.15836559]

>>15836505
You mean there is a thread about something you dont like?

[Anonymous No.15836611]

>>15836554
What do you believe, anon?

[Anonymous No.15836631]

>>15836611
I think it could be real, however its not infallible and its not a complete or final revelation.

>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.15837004]

I come, then, to worship, not merely the God of existences, but the God of the possibility of all future existences. Therefore must your devotion to a supreme ideal, if that ideal is real, be devotion to this God of past, present, and future universes of things and beings. And there is no other God, for there cannot possibly be any other God. All other gods are figments of the imagination, illusions of mortal mind, distortions of false logic, and the self-deceptive idols of those who create them. Yes, you can have a religion without this God, but it does not mean anything. And if you seek to substitute the word God for the reality of this ideal of the living God, you have only deluded yourself by putting an idea in the place of an ideal, a divine reality. Such beliefs are merely religions of wishful fancy.

[Anonymous No.15837091]

>>15837004
You have truly touched my heart anon

[Anonymous No.15838453]

>>15837091
cheers

[Anonymous No.15838458]

Cringe new-age false prophet bullshit. Just read the Bible.

[Anonymous No.15838877]

>>15838458
There is truth and wisdom in the Bible, Urantia even says the book of Psalms "constitutes the most valuable and helpful assortment of devotional sentiments ever assembled by man up to the times of the twentieth century. The worshipful spirit of this collection of hymns transcends that of all other sacred books of the world."

159:4.2."...The words of the law of Moses and the teachings of the Scriptures were not in existence before Abraham. Only in recent times have the Scriptures been gathered together as we now have them. While they contain the best of the higher thoughts and longings of the Jewish people, they also contain much that is far from being representative of the character and teachings of the Father in heaven; wherefore must I choose from among the better teachings those truths which are to be gleaned for the gospel of the kingdom.
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159:4.3."These writings are the work of men, some of them holy men, others not so holy. The teachings of these books represent the views and extent of enlightenment of the times in which they had their origin. As a revelation of truth, the last are more dependable than the first. The Scriptures are faulty and altogether human in origin, but mistake not, they do constitute the best collection of religious wisdom and spiritual truth to be found in all the world at this time.
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159:4.4."Many of these books were not written by the persons whose names they bear, but that in no way detracts from the value of the truths which they contain. If the story of Jonah should not be a fact, even if Jonah had never lived, still would the profound truth of this narrative, the love of God for Nineveh and the so-called heathen, be none the less precious in the eyes of all those who love their fellow men. The Scriptures are sacred because they present the thoughts and acts of men who were searching for God, and who in these writings left on record their highest concepts of righteousness, truth, and holiness. The Scriptures contain much that is true, very much, but in the light of your present teaching, you know that these writings also contain much that is misrepresentative of the Father in heaven, the loving God I have come to reveal to all the worlds.

[Anonymous No.15839169]

>>15836494
Either catholicism or orthodoxy are the real church and conveyor of truth, or christ and the Bible is false.
There's no inbetween, if christ is real then the church's Bible is true.