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The Urantia Book is the most profound book I've ever read. The authors claim it to be a revelation. But don't let another boy who cried wolf, or revelation, be a stumbling block. I found this book as a doubting, soon to be an agnostic, while serving in the USMC, in 1980. My faith in organized religion, as I knew it then, had been destroyed when my Pastor said, after I handed him a dinosaur fossil, that fossils were put here by the Devil to confuse us. As a young man, who craved to understand science, philosophy & religion, his answer didn't convince me. When I found the Urantia Book, it had answers to such compelling questions as, "Why are we here?"; "Where do we go when we die?"; "Who was this guy named Jesus?"; "Is there really a great divide between science & religion as so many people want us to believe?" & many more thought provoking topics. The Urantia Book is not easy to read. Many who attempt to read it from the beginning fail to get to the end. The first 200 pages are some of the most mentally complex & paradigm challenging text I've ever tackled. But the later papers that purports to share the story of the life and teachings of the man we know as Jesus is so heartwarming & convincing, I challenge anyone to read the last 1/3 of the book devoted to his life & message & then claim they remain unconvinced of the book's authenticity or fail to become a true follower of The Son of Man and Son of God: Jesus. The book introduces us to his sublime, august personality & makes him a character you want to know & want to devote your life to learn more of, perhaps even shall I say, Follow. The book reveals many missing pieces of the puzzle. The Bible gives us the message of people who were greatly influenced by Jesus, or just his message or his ability to knock one off a horse and blind one briefly. These messages are significant & have unquestionably changed the face of the earth as we know. But they lack when it comes to clearly stating the Message OF Jesus not the Message ABOUT Jesus. There is a difference. The message ABOUT Jesus is that he, as he said he would, rise from the dead in 3 days. The message OF Jesus is that we ARE ALL Children of God & there is a Fragment of God within each one of us. That fragment indwells everyone: not merely those who become followers of today's Christianity. WE ARE ALL Children of the same GOD. GOD respects none more than another. What’s important is that we recognize we are Faith Children of God & then equally all brothers and sisters of the same Creator & then live a life accordingly. Just having a Fragment of God within us is not enough. It's a gift with much potential but it’s our willful consecration of choice to do the will of our Heavenly Creator that brings us to the potential of immortality. God provides this fragment to become one with, in eternity. How Jesus lived is equally, if not more, important than how he died. He showed us the best example of what a human being can become, if one wholeheartedly dedicates one's life to doing the Will of God. This conscious choice to willingly dedicate our thoughts, actions, & interactions with others, brings us to a state of Grace that grows more real with each decision; with what is the highest absolute potential: personality survival. We cannot BE another Jesus. We will not be asked that at our moment of reckoning, but we will be asked if we were good stewards with the gifts we were given. “How did you treat my Children?”Read full review
I'm 60 years old. I've been fortunate enough to travel the globe, live among different cultures and experience their associated religious traditions. I've studied with earnest these various traditions and found most to be scarred by contradiction and confusion. I've been a U-Book reader for more than 20 years now. It appeals to my appreciation of science and logic, and I sincerely believe that it is the most acute, complete, and accurate dissemination of deity and seraphic understanding available to us at present. One should be aware that this is not a Bible, although the Christ Revelation and experience is well documented in particular papers. One should also know that it's not an easy read, nor is it designed be. The information within challenges the highest of human comprehensions, therefore it understandably utilizes language structure and syntax to the fullest. Lastly, this revelatory document should probably be on the desk of every world leader if the notion of peace and prosperity is of any genuine interest. Happy ascending:)Read full review
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Not for those who are not well versed, as it was channel and written with higher division English.
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Very out there type of reading material.Entertaining to read.
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