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Commonalities among Religions

Saturday, 21 March, 2015
Commonalities among Religions

Teacher: Prolotheos ―
What divides human beings are their differences. What unites them are their commonalities. The different religions on Urantia will remain in conflict with each other while you focus on their differences, rather than on their commonalities. What you have in common with others will make you focus on what is basic, essential or primordial. The differences are construed upon what is secondary, derivative and superfluous. The interchange of knowledge and spiritual aspects from the different religions should bring mutual improvement to every religion, acknowledging and incorporating the advanced features of each.

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Ignorance is not bliss

Thursday, 5 May, 2022
Thought Adjuster ― Ignorance is not bliss

Teacher: Thought Adjuster ―
Ignorance does not contribute to bliss, as it is a state of deprivation of knowledge, which often triggers fear of the unknown and a lack of self-confidence. Throughout the dark ages of evolution, the unsolved mysteries of the unknown have placed a great burden on men’s souls.

To make sense of inner and outer physical and metaphysical phenomena, overimaginative minds concocted belief systems and elaborated complex rituals for self-preservation that, for the utter lack thereof, were not based on scientific facts or philosophical truth and were easily espoused by fear-ridden ignorant flocks. Both suspicion and superstition played a part in these flawed interpretations that provided a temporary framework for the rudimentary understanding of these early eras.

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About truth in motion

Friday, 26 February, 2021
About truth in motion

“Organized religion has proved to be conservatively tardy. The prophets have usually led the people in religious development; the theologians have usually held them back.” [The Urantia Book, 102:8.6]

Teacher: Thought Adjuster ―
This quote made you pause as it nails down what impairs sound religious development. Prophets are visionaries who provide sneak previews into the future to assist their audience in forming better-informed decisions. These wise men selflessly dispense their enlightenment as a catalyst for the forward evolution of planetary spirituality. Due to the controversial nature of their predictions, many of these non-conformist oracles have been put to death by fear-driven religious fanatics.

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Freelance with Spirit!

Friday, 12 March, 2021
spiritual growth

“You do not have to see alike or feel alike or even think alike in order spiritually to be alike. Spiritual unity is derived from the consciousness that each of you is indwelt, and increasingly dominated, by the spirit gift of the heavenly Father. Your apostolic harmony must grow out of the fact that the spirit hope of each of you is identical in origin, nature, and destiny”. [The Urantia Book, 141:5.1]

Teacher: Thought Adjuster ―
Jesus warned his followers of the dangers of dogmatism and standardization—the formulation of creeds and establishment of traditions as means of controlling believers in the gospel of the kingdom.
Standardization is stifling, as it does not leave enough room for original and spontaneous self-expression.  Its generic one-size-fits-all mold impairs natural free-spiritedness. It often resorts to dictatorial intimidation, coercion, and emotional black-mailing to force independent thinkers into submission.

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The ways of a consecrated heart

Sunday, 14 February, 2021
The ways of a consecrated heart

Teacher: Thought Adjuster ―
The stern Jewish religious system imposed the dutiful performance of certain things as the means of attaining salvation. Therefore, Jesus had a tough time imparting his audience with the liberating truth that the fellowship of God's sons is joyous and freely attainable by simple and sincere faith. Jesus unceremoniously reduced the 613 commandments of the Jewish religion to the single heart-prompted admonition of the Golden Rule.

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Paul of Tarsus: Hell and the duration of punishment ― 2 & 3

Monday, 20 November, 1916
Paul of Tarsus: Hell and the duration of punishment

Teacher: St. Paul —
I am here, St. Paul. I come to write you on the subject that I commented on last night, namely: Hell and the duration of punishment, and if you feel that you are in condition to receive the message I will begin and finish the same. Well, as I said last night, the hell of the orthodox preachers as formerly taught, that is a hell of brimstone and fires, is not the true hell and has no existence save in the minds of these orthodox believers.

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Paul of Tarsus: Hell and the duration of punishment

Sunday, 19 November, 1916
Bible, Paul of Tarsus

Teacher: St. Paul ―
I am here, St. Paul.
I merely want to say that I was present at the church tonight and listened to the preacher (Dr. Ratcliff) tell his congregation what he didn’t know about hell, because what he said, in many particulars was untrue and it was pleasing to hear him tell his people that there was no physical suffering, although he didn’t explain to them why there could be no such suffering, and I mean that no spirit, when he goes into hell carries with him his physical body, or any other body, that has such substance as would be affected by fire and brimstone and the other unreasonable things that the churches have for so many years taught and terrified their members with - and as a consequence caused them to believe that the Father is such a cruel and wrathful Father, demanding that His cravings for satisfaction be supplied by the sizzling in fire of the bodies of His children. No, this damnable doctrine is not true and I am glad to see that the churches are ceasing to believe or teach it.

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St. Jerome: The truths of God must not be sought for in his writings or those of the disciples as contained in the Bible, because of many errors therein

Tuesday, 17 August, 1915
St. Jerome

Teacher: St. Jerome ―
I came to tell you that I am an inhabitant of that Kingdom which Samuel has so inadequately described, and that is the Kingdom of Jesus and, of course, of the Father.

You may not know anything about me, but I was canonized many centuries ago by the church, because it thought that I had done the church so much good by my writings and discourses on things religious. But I must confess now, that when I wrote, I expressed as truths many things which I now see were not true, and I would like to be able to correct all these errors in my writings, but I cannot.

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Samuel ― Describes the Celestial Heavens

Tuesday, 17 August, 1915
Samuel - Describes the Celestial Heavens

Teacher: Samuel ―
I am here, Samuel, the Prophet. I am the prophet who came to you before and wrote. Tonight, I want to tell you of the wonderful things which God has prepared for his redeemed children in the Celestial Spheres, where only those who have received the New Birth can enter.

In these spheres are homes made of the most beautiful materials that can be imagined, and which are of a real and permanent character, and not subject to decay or deterioration of any kind, and which are made without hands, but by the soul’s development, and the love which each spirit possesses.

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St. Augustine says that many of the teachings of the Bible cannot be relied upon

Saturday, 7 August, 1915
St. Augustine says that many of the teachings of the Bible cannot be relied upon

Teacher: St. Augustine ―
I am here, St. Augustine. I merely want to say that I am the St. Augustine who lived after the death of Jesus and was well acquainted with His teachings as they were preserved by the Church. At that time I never knew exactly what became of the manuscripts that were in existence when I lived, but the ones that are supposed to furnish the origin of many of the Biblical writings were not the ones that I was acquainted with. Those that I used were all written in Greek and were written by the disciples of Jesus, and by those of His followers to whom the disciples had communicated the teachings of the Master; and they were the genuine ones and were written from the actual communications of the disciples.

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Paul of Tarsus denies the vicarious atonement - this belief doing much harm - Bible contains many false statements

Tuesday, 26 October, 1915
Paul of Tarsus denies the vicarious atonement - this belief doing much harm - Bible contains many false statements

Teacher: St. Paul ―
I am here, St. Paul. Yes I am and I want to say just a few words. The book on the “vicarious atonement” that you have been reading - about the ransom price and the blood of Jesus and the sacrifice on the cross - as to these things is all wrong, and you must not believe what it says.

Well, I know the Bible ascribes to me the teaching of these things, but I never did; and I tell you now, as I have before told you, that the Bible cannot be depended on as containing things that I wrote, for there are many additions to what I wrote, and many omissions of what I wrote; and so with the others whose names are stated as the writers of the New Testament. Many things contained in that book were never written by any of the alleged authors of the book. The writings of any of us are not in existence, and have not been for many centuries; and when they were copied and recopied, great additions and omissions were made, and, at last, doctrines and dogmas were interpolated that we never at anytime believed or wrote.

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St. Paul explains his thorn in the flesh, his experience on the way to Damascus

Sunday, 27 June, 1915
St. Paul of the Bible

Teacher: St. Paul ―
Saul of Tarsus, now Paul of near Damascus. I have written many epistles which are contained in the Bible, and some are nearly correct, and in them you will find my idea of God and of the Master. I never taught that the Master was God, and neither did I teach the doctrine of the vicarious atonement or the sufficiency of Jesus’ blood to save a sinner from the sins of his earthly deeds. I never taught that any man’s sins would be borne and the penalty for same be paid for by another - and wherever these doctrines are set forth in my epistles, they were not written by me.

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A New Theology

Tuesday, 25 June, 2013
Thought Adjuster

Teacher: Thought Adjuster ―
Spirituality should be considered to be one of the worthwhile disciplines of human endeavor. Theology was the first step, but most of this area of study deals with the religions of the past. While it is important to understand how in the past human beings conceived the Creator, it is necessary to dedicate an equal amount of time to the exploration of new ideas and scientific speculation.

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The Subtle Quake of Dissonance

Monday, 4 March, 2019
Trinity Teacher Uteah

Teacher: Trinity Teacher Uteah
There are many good and faithful followers of religion on Urantia that are dedicated to the doing of Father's Will.  It is to be noted that many of these dedicated followers do embody the tenants of their faith and try to lead lives that are in accordance with their religious beliefs.  They believe that they are doing Father's Will and many good services do they provide in helping their fellows who are in need of spiritual guidance and help dealing with the rigors of life.  Religions are important to the development of spiritual thought and may become a force of good when the intentions of the group are genuinely caring for the betterment of souls on Urantia.  As Urantia enters the enlightened eras of Light and Life, religions will begin to unify seeing the benefits of brotherhood when they support the intersecting values that all humans share. To get there, they will need to look at what divides them and come to an understanding that will require the revision of some rigidly held dogmas. Revision can only come about when followers begin questioning the authority of beliefs that feel discordant within their own souls.

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New Era Conversations 64 – Cultural Change; Leadership; Unifying religionists

Friday, 11 March, 2016
Machiventa Melchizedek, Planetary Manager and Planetary Prince
Topics:
  • Purpose of the Planetary Management team
  • Individual participation in organizations
  • False sentiment toward degenerate stocks
  • Teachings of Dalamatia
  • Social association as survival insurance
  • Cultural change is outpacing biologic evolution
  • Do inter-racial marriages effect cultural civilization?
  • Unifying religionists
  • Leadership and vision
  • Leadership and facilitation
  • The quality of organized religions
  • Surviving disasters by creating new societies
  • Coping with violence after the disasters
  • Visual presentation of 6 core values
  • Whether to reveal celestial sources or not
  • Machiventa’s closing words

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