Book of Urantia

Hi, Ascender. Yeah, CM is one way to scalp the UB. However, the lasting value of any study is in the outworkings of experience. There simply is no end to learning while serving. On the shelf, like intellect, only gathers dust when unattended.
I love the UB. It opened up the Bible to me and continues to satisfy my curiosities. It tickles deeply...

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Originally Posted by unclebill

I love the UB. It opened up the Bible to me

In what way?? Can you elaborate a little on that, please??

For me, seems the undertanding of God is very complicated.

Well, let's see.
Hi, folks. I think the above two responses share answers.
In sharing god we gain strength, companionship and sense of purpose. Relationships satisfy our curiousities as we grow. Part of growing is experimentation, especially for the moral mind.

The UB feeds my hunger to experience relationship with abba Father. The UB is not intended to be read like a novel, but experienced like a mirror on perspective. You know that sense you feel when you talk to yourself in the mirror? a sincerity that's true? well, that's the UB for me.
That's the way in which I love the UB.
How has experiencing the UB opened up the Bible? By changing perspectives.
Example: Moses, the parting of the Red Sea and all that could be describing childbirth, delivery, etc. An understanding from a different perspective.
Achieving understanding of God is not a human perogative. Experiencing understanding with God aids your desire to know and serve his will. It's the desire that's draws and the sincerity that activates relationship.

From my perspective simply sincerity is more valuable than the keenest mind.

bill

For me, when I first started hearing thing from the UB from my dad when I was a kid, it was as if I already knew those things, the UB was validating ideas and concepts that the spirit had been training me with already.


Cano

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"Law is life itself and not the rules of its conduct. Evil is a transgression of law, not a violation of the rules of conduct pertaining to life, which is the law. Falsehood is not a matter of narration technique but something premeditated as a perversion of truth. The creation of new pictures out of old facts, the restatement of parental life in the lives of offspring — these are the artistic triumphs of truth. The shadow of a hair’s turning, premeditated for an untrue purpose, the slightest twisting or perversion of that which is principle — these constitute falseness. But the fetish of factualized truth, fossilized truth, the iron band of so-called unchanging truth, holds one blindly in a closed circle of cold fact. One can be technically right as to fact and everlastingly wrong in the truth."

http://www.truthbook.com/index.cfm?linkID=1295#U48_6_33

Cano