Discovering the Urantia Book

8. Faith and Belief from paper 101. other detail is page number.

(1114.5) 101:8.1 Belief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living. The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of mind attains to faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode of living. Faith is a living attribute of genuine personal religious experience. One believes truth, admires beauty, and reverences goodness, but does not worship them; such an attitude of saving faith is centered on God alone, who is all of these personified and infinitely more.

(1114.6) 101:8.2 Belief is always limiting and binding; faith is expanding and releasing. Belief fixates, faith liberates. But living religious faith is more than the association of noble beliefs; it is more than an exalted system of philosophy; it is a living experience concerned with spiritual meanings, divine ideals, and supreme values; it is God-knowing and man-serving. Beliefs may become group possessions, but faith must be personal. Theologic beliefs can be suggested to a group, but faith can rise up only in the heart of the individual religionist.

(1114.7) 101:8.3 Faith has falsified its trust when it presumes to deny realities and to confer upon its devotees assumed knowledge. Faith is a traitor when it fosters betrayal of intellectual integrity and belittles loyalty to supreme values and divine ideals. Faith never shuns the problem-solving duty of mortal living. Living faith does not foster bigotry, persecution, or intolerance.

(1115.1) 101:8.4 Faith does not shackle the creative imagination, neither does it maintain an unreasoning prejudice toward the discoveries of scientific investigation. Faith vitalizes religion and constrains the religionist heroically to live the golden rule. The zeal of faith is according to knowledge, and its strivings are the preludes to sublime peace.

(1259.2) 114:7.17 Your isolated world is not forgotten in the counsels of the universe. Urantia is not a cosmic orphan stigmatized by sin and shut away from divine watchcare by rebellion. From Uversa to Salvington and on down to Jerusem, even in Havona and on Paradise, they all know we are here; and you mortals now dwelling on Urantia are just as lovingly cherished and just as faithfully watched over as if the sphere had never been betrayed by a faithless Planetary Prince, even more so. It is eternally true, “the Father himself loves you.”

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God is god and you this bullshit.

Ha Ha Ha


SUCKERS

Your Creator Son can actually be such a living channel from humanity to divinity since he has personally experienced the fullness of the traversal of this universe path of progression, from the true humanity of Joshua ben Joseph, the Son of Man, to the Paradise divinity of Michael of Nebadon, the Son of the infinite God. 117:3.4 UB

welll what a fine you do not seem to possess... work on it

I just started reading this book. I first read several pages from the chapter on the Kingdom of Heaven. I was very impressed so I have now started reading the whole book from the beginning. I have yet to of read anything that severely contradicts my beliefs.

However, I've read a few post here and there on GLP, including this thread, and I'm starting to get confused.

The book describes the Father, the Eternal Son, and the son creators. Okay. And that Michael is the creator of our world. Okay.. I guess I can accept that. I mean, I won't refute it.

But... Now I read on here Christ Michael is who? ..I don't understand. Christ Michael is Jesus?? Christ Michael is the Eternal Son?? Jesus is not the Eternal Son??

Please can somebody clarify this for me?

Where in the book does it talk about this? Or doesn't it?

So often people get their facts wrong. I would like to know exactly what the book says about this.

Page number, citation please.

what is the bride of christs purpose? who is she and what does she do?

The Urantia Book comes from the same aliens who gave us the book of Mormon. Beware of any religous materials thet quote very heavily from the writings of Paul and John of the Bible. The Verdants also do this. There are entities who will tell you not to even read the writings of Paul and John.

Beings known as Ants who are called telestial beings are behind these things. You see the words Ant in their names such as the name VerdANT. There is also someone currently in Hawaii who is channelling someone who calls herself Ant'na.

I've even heard of words like Ant-Christ instead of antichrist.

To not fall into bias: History of the origins & apparition of the URANTIA Revelation.(!!!)
OK, so these 3 sets of books are the most important ones on the actual history of how the URANTIA Papers appeared into our world & for all humanity, they built upon almost all or all material available for its origins.
This is so you don't fall into bias, prejudice, ignorance, & indecision. And since there's a recent thread on URANTIA supposed fanatics (URANTIA goes against fanaticism within its pages), here at TOL, you bear with me & please tolerate this new topic!!!.
Here you go (Moyer's is a more important book than Mullin's below):
* The Birth of a Divine Revelation---The Origin of The URANTIA Papers ( [link to www.world-destiny.org] by Ernest P. Moyer (2000) (free to read online!)
* A History of The URANTIA Papers ( [link to freeurantia.org] by Larry Mullins (2000) (free to read online!) (& property of this very DateHookup's furchizedek!)
* The [URANTIA] Sherman Diaries ( [link to www.amazon.com] Edited & Compiled by Saskia Praamsma & Matthew Block (2003 onwards) (to purchase)
.LM., 30

OK Ashtar. Red squirrel to gray fox, over.

Michael doesn't need a material craft for transportation. And he certainly doesn't need primitive means of communication, like radio. He created this local universe, remember? Have you even read the UB? Or, do you prefer to stay out in the weeds of New Age delusion?

Channeling is new age crap.

Excuse me:
did you mean URANTIA was channeled, or is New Age delusion or what??? Do you like it?.

No, New Age delusion is believing that aliens in "light ships" are coming here to rescue us. Or that "Obama is a light worker" Or that Ashtar Command captured the Malaysian missing airplane and they are "preparing to make a statement about NESARA."

The Urantia Book is real. It is my favorite book. There is a tremendous amount of wisdom there. It is not an easy read, but it will improve your vocabulary and give you insights that you have never had.

I gave the UB to a new friend on 8-5, as a gift. He is looking for truth. It is a rare treat to find other people seeking truth who can converse without all the baggage and ingrained dogma. He is reading the Tao Te Ching.

I have friends who are Christians too. But, sadly most are closed minded with respect to new revelations. So, I try not to offend their sensibilities. We still have good discussions.

Both of you are clueless. It always amazes me that people are so helpless to think for themselves. Have you never heard of the Spirit of Truth?

[link to urantia-book.org] This is a nice symopsis by Dr. Sadler on the journey to Paradise at each basic level.... copy it to you computer to enjoy.

small sample...

On the Melchizedek worlds we have a grand round-up of our whole training to date. On the Lanonandek worlds we study the problems of the coordination of executive rulings in the ten thousand systems of the local universe. On the Vorondadek worlds we become students of the problems of legislative coordination, coordinating the legislative enactments of the 100 constellations. On the Life Carrier worlds, I suspect we get a good course of sprouts in biology and in physics and so on. And finally we move on to Salvington. They don't tell us much about what we do on Salvington. But they do tell us about the function of a very interesting group of seraphim. Up on Salvington, we'll benefit from the ministry of a group of supreme seraphim called Universe Orientators.

and I forgot to give the linky to all the posted Dr. Sadler tapes which are transcribed to read.

[link to www.urantiabook.org]

This one is good too.... [link to urantia-book.org]

Personality Choice and mind small sample

I think paper 5 is the most intimate of the five discussions on God, and it should be, because they're talking about God's relation to us. They're talking about the approach to God, his presence, what is true worship, what is his relation to religion, how does one become conscious of God. And then, in the very last section, they introduce this radically new concept of personality as a fourth reality--not matter, not mind, not spirit, but something yet again, something which God gives. I like this statement: "God provides for the sovereign choice of all true personalities. No personal creature can be coerced into the eternal adventure; the portal of eternity opens only in response to the freewill choice of the freewill sons of the God of free will."

48:8.4 In traversing the ascending scale of living existence from mortal man to the Deity embrace, you actually live the very life of every possible phase and stage of perfected creature existence within the limits of the present universe age. From mortal man to Paradise finaliter embraces all that now can be—encompasses everything presently possible to the living orders of intelligent, perfected finite creature beings. If the future destiny of the Paradise finaliters is service in new universes now in the making, it is assured that in this new and future creation there will be no created orders of experiential beings whose lives will be wholly different from those which mortal finaliters have lived on some world as a part of their ascending training, as one of the stages of their agelong progress from animal to angel and from angel to spirit and from spirit to God.

From Paper 48.

Thanks a lot for revitalizing this thread. Saved it this time!

They are the primary personalities of the Infinite Spirit. There are seven of them because there are only seven combinations of the three deities. This is also why the grand universe has seven divisions and seven is the fundamental for many things in the master universe.

They are the same spiritually but different in personality which shows up in the nature of the superuniverse they rule. They serve many functions but their primary concern is their suuperuniverse.

Each has an enormous force-focal headquarters which revolves around Paradise and stays opposite their superuniverse, where they control power and distribute energy. The radial lines of the superuniverse converge on their headquarters.

Relation to Trinity

The deity decision to create the grand universe for intelligent creatures made the Master Spirits necessary. Together, not individually, they are the expression of all functions of the Trinity.

On reaching Paradise ascenders recognize the Master Spirit of their superuniverse before any of the three deities. The Infinite spirit speaks through the master spirit. He is present only in Paradise but through the master spirit and his offspring He is present everywhere. Also the Infinite Spirit is addressed through the Master Spirit.

MS1 - speaks for & has the same nature as the Father. He is a close associate of the chief of the Mystery Monitors on Divinington. All Master Spirits keep close contact with the Reflective Spirits on the headquarters worlds in their respective superuniverses.

MS2 - speaks for & has the same nature as the Son. He maintains a close relationship with the offspring of the Son.

MS3 - speaks for and resembles the Infinite Spirit. He directs the many high personalities of the Infinite Spirit.

MS4 - speaks for the Father & the Son and has the characteristics of their combined nature. He advises the ascenders who have recognized the Infinite Spirit and are now ready to seek the Father and the Son. He directs the many offspring of the Father and the So.

MS5 - speaks for the Father and the Infinite Spirit & has their combined nature. He directs the Power Centers, Power Directors and the Physical Controllers.

MS6 - speaks for the combined nature of the Son and the Infinite Spirit. He supervises their offspring.

MS7 - speaks for and has the traits of all three deities, which is the nature of the Supreme. Therefore He presides at meetings. He advises all ascenders.

The seven Master Spirits are the ancestors of the Universal Power Directors and their associates who organize, control and regulate the physical energies of the grand universe. They also assist the Creator Sons in shaping the local universes.

The Master Spirits do not create energy, just manage it. The Unqualified Absolute, an aspect of the Father, creates energy and distributes it from nether Paradise.

The Master Spirits combine material and spiritual energies and produce morontia substance and morontia mind. Much of reality is of the morontia order, therefore the Master Spirits bridge the gap between material and spiritual realities. The goal of every ascender is, of course, spiritual mind.

The Seven Master Spirits have a large number of personal representatives throughout the grand universe but most of them are not involved in the mortal ascent so we don't know much about them. We think they are involved in:

1. - life initiation procedures of the Life Carriers.

2. - the life activations of the adjutant mind spirits bestowed upon the worlds by a local universe Creative Spirit (in our case Nebadonia).

3. - the fluctuations in energy shown by linear gravity responding units of organized matter.

4. - the behaviour of energy emerging from nether Paradise thus becoming responsive to gravity and the Universe Power Directors

5. - the bestowal of the Holy Spirit from the Creative Spirit of a local universe.

6. - the subsequent bestowal of the Spirit of Truth by the Creator Son (in our case Christ Michael)

7. - the reflectivity of the local universes and the superuniverse. We don't fully understand this incredible phenomenon.

Everyone benefits from the united counsel of the Master Spirits but each one puts his personal stamp on His superuniverse such that all creatures bear this badge of natal identification.

The seven Master Spirits do not personally contact the creatures of time and space but only through the Creative Spirit, minister of a local universe. She is very much like the Master Spirit.

An ascenders entire morontia career is spent under the direction of a Master Spirit and thus bears His stamp, which stays with him even into Paradise. Even in the Corps of the Finality when it is desired to illustrate a complete Trinity relationship a group of seven is convened, one from each superuniverse.

The seven Master Spirits represent the cosmic mind, a manifestation of the Infinite Spirit and related to the Supreme Being.

The seven Master Spirits influence our intellectual & spiritual potentials through the Creative Spirit.

It is said that kindred spirits are attracted to each other. Because of the cosmic mind kindred minds are also attract each other.

The 'reality response ' of the cosmic mind prevents us from falling for assumptions of science philosophy and religion. It is attracted to reality like matter responds to gravity. It responds on three levels;

causation - the logical, mathematical discrimination.

duty - recognition of right from wrong - the judicial form of discrimination.

worship - this is the highest insight of cosmic mind, the reverential form of discrimination. We worship God because He is, then because He is in us, and last because we are in Him.

Cosmic mind endows all will creatures, unfortunately, Urantians fail to cultivate cosmic thinking.

These insights allow man to function as a rational personality. However they may become distorted. When they become united they produce a strong character and deep meaning of thing meaning and values.

Education sharpens these innate endowments, civilization expresses them, life experience realizes them religion ennobles them and personality unifies them.

　

　

i can't believe this book or whatever it is, it seems to incorporate the christian bible and jesus, which i firmly do not believe in for a multitude of plagiarisms and secrecy.

6. The God of Personality

5:6.1 (70.2) The Universal Father is the God of personalities. The domain of universe personality, from the lowest mortal and material creature of personality status to the highest persons of creator dignity and divine status, has its center and circumference in the Universal Father. God the Father is the bestower and the conservator of every personality. And the Paradise Father is likewise the destiny of all those finite personalities who wholeheartedly choose to do the divine will, those who love God and long to be like him.

5:6.2 (70.3) Personality is one of the unsolved mysteries of the universes. We are able to form adequate concepts of the factors entering into the make-up of various orders and levels of personality, but we do not fully comprehend the real nature of the personality itself. We clearly perceive the numerous factors which, when put together, constitute the vehicle for human personality, but we do not fully comprehend the nature and significance of such a finite personality.

5:6.3 (70.4) Personality is potential in all creatures who possess a mind endowment ranging from the minimum of self-consciousness to the maximum of God-consciousness. But mind endowment alone is not personality, neither is spirit nor physical energy. Personality is that quality and value in cosmic reality which is exclusively bestowed by God the Father upon these living systems of the associated and co-ordinated energies of matter, mind, and spirit. Neither is personality a progressive achievement. Personality may be material or spiritual, but there either is personality or there is no personality. The other-than-personal never attains the level of the personal except by the direct act of the Paradise Father.

5:6.4 (70.5) The bestowal of personality is the exclusive function of the Universal Father, the personalization of the living energy systems which he endows with the attributes of relative creative consciousness and the freewill control thereof. There is no personality apart from God the Father, and no personality exists except for God the Father. The fundamental attributes of human selfhood, as well as the absolute Adjuster nucleus of the human personality, are the bestowals of the Universal Father, acting in his exclusively personal domain of cosmic ministry.

5:6.5 (70.6) The Adjusters of prepersonal status indwell numerous types of mortal creatures, thus insuring that these same beings may survive mortal death to personalize as morontia creatures with the potential of ultimate spirit attainment. For, when such a creature mind of personality endowment is indwelt by a fragment of the spirit of the eternal God, the prepersonal bestowal of the personal Father, then does this finite personality possess the potential of the divine and the eternal and aspire to a destiny akin to the Ultimate, even reaching out for a realization of the Absolute.

5:6.6 (71.1) Capacity for divine personality is inherent in the prepersonal Adjuster; capacity for human personality is potential in the cosmic-mind endowment of the human being. But the experiential personality of mortal man is not observable as an active and functional reality until after the material life vehicle of the mortal creature has been touched by the liberating divinity of the Universal Father, being thus launched upon the seas of experience as a self-conscious and a (relatively) self-determinative and self-creative personality. The material self is truly and unqualifiedly personal.

5:6.7 (71.2) The material self has personality and identity, temporal identity; the prepersonal spirit Adjuster also has identity, eternal identity. This material personality and this spirit prepersonality are capable of so uniting their creative attributes as to bring into existence the surviving identity of the immortal soul.

5:6.8 (71.3) Having thus provided for the growth of the immortal soul and having liberated man’s inner self from the fetters of absolute dependence on antecedent causation, the Father stands aside. Now, man having thus been liberated from the fetters of causation response, at least as pertains to eternal destiny, and provision having been made for the growth of the immortal self, the soul, it remains for man himself to will the creation or to inhibit the creation of this surviving and eternal self which is his for the choosing. No other being, force, creator, or agency in all the wide universe of universes can interfere to any degree with the absolute sovereignty of the mortal free will, as it operates within the realms of choice, regarding the eternal destiny of the personality of the choosing mortal. As pertains to eternal survival, God has decreed the sovereignty of the material and mortal will, and that decree is absolute.

5:6.9 (71.4) The bestowal of creature personality confers relative liberation from slavish response to antecedent causation, and the personalities of all such moral beings, evolutionary or otherwise, are centered in the personality of the Universal Father. They are ever drawn towards his Paradise presence by that kinship of being which constitutes the vast and universal family circle and fraternal circuit of the eternal God. There is a kinship of divine spontaneity in all personality.

5:6.10 (71.5) The personality circuit of the universe of universes is centered in the person of the Universal Father, and the Paradise Father is personally conscious of, and in personal touch with, all personalities of all levels of self-conscious existence. And this personality consciousness of all creation exists independently of the mission of the Thought Adjusters.

5:6.11 (71.6) As all gravity is circuited in the Isle of Paradise, as all mind is circuited in the Conjoint Actor and all spirit in the Eternal Son, so is all personality circuited in the personal presence of the Universal Father, and this circuit unerringly transmits the worship of all personalities to the Original and Eternal Personality.

5:6.12 (71.7) Concerning those personalities who are not Adjuster indwelt: The attribute of choice-liberty is also bestowed by the Universal Father, and such persons are likewise embraced in the great circuit of divine love, the personality circuit of the Universal Father. God provides for the sovereign choice of all true personalities. No personal creature can be coerced into the eternal adventure; the portal of eternity opens only in response to the freewill choice of the freewill sons of the God of free will.

5:6.13 (72.1) And this represents my efforts to present the relation of the living God to the children of time. And when all is said and done, I can do nothing more helpful than to reiterate that God is your universe Father, and that you are all his planetary children.

5:6.14 (72.2) [This is the fifth and last of the series presenting the narrative of the Universal Father by a Divine Counselor of Uversa.]

This is a piece from the returned Christ MIchael/Jesus given to the 11:11 group.


Heritage20Urantia, January 31, 2016.
Teacher: Michael of Nebadon.
Subject: “Your Eternal Resume.”
Message received by Lytske.
[link to www.1111angels.net]


Michael: “You thought it was funny when I suggested the subject of conversing about an eternal resume. And yet, at the same time you felt that I was a deeply serious about my request. My reason is that not many humans on this planet are giving thought to what it is they are supposed to be doing in their earthly lives. Each mortal’s responsibility is to figure out why they have been given the gift of life, including that of free will.

The entire universe is one vast training ground, starting right here, to evolve and advance reliable ascending beings. After completing their ages-long training to become perfect they shall be found worthy to fill positions of trust in the far-away universes as yet incomplete. They might even be asked to give their insights during the planning for future planets to be inhabited.

“Think about such potential honors: to be asked to take part in the future planning as eternity stretches before you with untold and unheard of potentials. The sky is truly not the limit. And you thought that you were going to sit on a cloud somewhere, bored to tears and playing a harp? How strange and useless.

“Think again my children: nothing could be further from the truth. God has bigger plans than giving you a chance to be bored to tears. (However, you do have that choice here on earth.) Activity abounds everywhere and the universe itself is full of surprises. I can only give you a miniscule glimpse of what might be possible, as beyond this life there are no barriers to keep you from your dreams. Instead, the eternal future can be very exhilarating, but only if you make it so.

“I, Michael, whom you know as Jesus, am the Ruler of this vast domain with my Consort, the Creative Mother Spirit, we are your Spiritual Parents and together with our Teachers and Angelic Helpers will be grading your resumes to see what you have achieved in our universe and what qualifications you have obtained during your journey to advance yourselves as sturdy, stalwart citizens, of the cosmos beginning here on this planet. Here it is where you build the basement floor on which your future curriculum rests.

“This is your sole responsibility as there is much you can train yourselves in; like doing the Heavenly Father’s will with a grateful heart, like learning to love and respect yourselves and learning to love and respect not only those you come in contact with, but equally all God’s other children. Yes, I know, there are many seemingly ‘unlovely’ people residing on this planet, but may I remind you that they, too, have eternal souls, depending on how they live their individual lives.

“Eternal life is free, but some restrictions could well apply if there is nothing worthwhile on life’s resume like loving service to one another with respect and appreciation. Eternal life is not for the slothful, willful and lazy unbelievers.

“My dear children, please ponder these words and respond increasingly to your God-given inner Light and start fulfilling your eternal resume worthy of a child of God.”

there is only 1 christ and it is NOT the craprantia mikey version.----this is lie from satan. And the true chist has NOT returned------this is also lie.

this is Jesus:

John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.


John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.


Folks should not be fooled by imposters claiming to be "christ". nor the ignorant shitheads promoting imposters.


matthew 24:23-24 Then if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or 'Here,' do not believe it.For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.