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The Urantia Book: A passport to infinity?

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    Times in which we live, finding consensus among seemingly different worldviews, not difficult, in light of the "new science" - to look beyond what the partial and finite reason understand. This correlation is morphing into an imperative of universality and functional validity surprising, perhaps even too much. Therefore, those who feel compelled to promote especially risky and / or generous initiatives require at least a small dose of faith to embark on the business of developing consciousness. This could end up being the only way to go beyond what we know, to have more arguments than philosophy proposes to base.

    Transcendental REVELATION


    The Urantia Book
    is a titanic effort of 2,097 pages, divided into 196 thematic papers as a self-proclaimed spiritual revelation made ​​by / heavenly beings. The original English version, The Urantia Book, was "transcribed" between 1922 and 1955, and first published by Urantia Foundation in 1955. Is this a scientific, theological and philosophical work about God, science, religion, philosophy and Destiny, an admittedly controversial text in its content and in its interpretation: while for some it is a philosophical work, for others it is just science fiction.

    Anyway is unnecessary believe Urantia Book be authentic for benefit greatly reading. According to this source, all human beings are one family, children of one God, the Universal Father. The book presents well, an integrated view of the universe, the fundamental reality that meets the principles of holism synergistic. It also aims to open up new vistas of Time and of Eternity, and reveal (how?) New ideas about the endless ascending adventure of finding the Father of our universe-a loving / friendly God who has direct relationship with His creatures. The nature and attributes of God are then argued to the extent they relate to the universe and the individual. It is claimed that the kingdom of God is an invisible spiritual family destined to become a living organism that transcends social institutions. Contemporary religious institutions, in that sense, can serve as a suitable source of religious administration for our society.

    The material and gravitational center of the universe, Paradise, is referred to as the place of origin of all forms of reality: spiritual, mental energy and material life and personality-something like the genetic root of a hierarchical universe brilliantly organized, which includes billions of inhabited planets at all stages of physical, mental and spiritual evolution. This totalized perception follows that science, philosophy and religion are seen as partial aspects of a much larger and unified cosmos.

    But The Urantia Book does not advocate a new organized religion. His views are based on the tense religious heritage and our days, encouraging a personal, living faith-based belief in God and sincere service to our fellow men. People around the world have discovered, again and again, the book touches them deep, life-changing, inspiring them and encouraging them to achieve new levels of spiritual growth. The text has the power to contribute significantly to the religious and philosophical thought of all people, the potential to transform the destiny of the world.

    COSMIC IS THE BIBLE?


    The Urantia Book
    traces one of the most realistic / detailed-mental-spiritual materials cosmologies in the integrated field of philosophy and religion, as it offers a coherent picture of the conditions and nature of immortality. Survival depends on the state of spiritual reality of personality-determinándosele by the decisions of free will of the individual to God, our loyalty to truth, beauty and goodness (as these supreme values ​​will be sincerely understood). In this universal reality, error, sin and iniquity are foolish, arrogant attitudes and suicidal.

    The relationship between body, mind, soul and spirit are explained in great depth and originality. The main challenge for the modern man is to make a balanced and sane effort to bring awareness to God. The growth towards perfection of purpose and spiritual nature of the ontological is presented as the fundamental motivation of life.

    The Urantia compendium clarifies the origin and evolution of events in our planet. In addition to physical development, including biological evolution of plants, animals and humans, I studied the progress of civilization, culture, forms of government, religion, family and other social institutions. The section that deals specifically on marriage and the family has a rich and realistic historical assessment of relations between men and women, and a section about the contributions of nature and nurture in shaping human life and home. The documents dealing with the nature and function of religion, purpose and practice of prayer and worship, and the place of religion in personal and institutional life and society are among the best discussions have been printed of these issues .

    The fourth section of The Urantia Book consists of seven hundred pages devoted to the life and teachings of Jesus (sixteen times longer than the Bible), consistent with the New Testament. This magnificent presentation of Jesus' life fuels the sketched image in that historic document. Its universal appeal persists even see him only as a historical novel. This version of the full life of Jesus called "hidden years"-from twelve to thirty-plus searches the Jesuit experiences post-incarnation and incarnation.

    Although their ontological and evolutionary roots are anchored in a verifiable historical past, The Urantia Book methodologically oriented towards the future, as contemporary theologies of hope. The illusions of secularism, reductionism, and utopia are challenged with a vision of the future that takes your breath away, from the harsh realities of the conditioned evolutionary development of the spirit.

    Unlike many scriptures "channeled" the book rejects the teachings about reincarnation and astrology. Plus, blindly with other occult revelations contradict some Christian doctrines, including the effectiveness of the Scriptures, the simple Trinity, the fall of man, original sin, the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ, faith and repentance to salvation, resurrection of the body and eternal punishment.The Jesus of Urantia categorically denounces this misconception absolute perfection of Scripture and the infallibility of its teachings. At the end of the book, we read: "All this concept of atonement and salvation through the sacrifice is rooted in selfishness ... Salvation must be granted to those who believe in the fatherhood of God."

    NEW VISION OF UNIVERSAL REALITY


    This book was issued 60 years ago a group of Americans by an anonymous group of entities autopresentaron as "Developers Heaven". The event is known as the delivery of the "Fifth Divine revelation" to mankind, since it appeared on Earth. Such sources should not be surprised at all, since, from the earliest times to the present day, humanity has been the subject of such revelations, now called "pipes" by the American subculture of New Age. The Bible itself is partly a result of these revelations attributed to the Divine, as in the case of the Book of San Juan, but today there are hundreds of entries received by these methods, where the only certainty is the identity of the recipient or recipients -with the exception of The Urantia Book, the writer remains anonymous group, now represented by The Urantia Foundation, based in Chicago (USA).

    It all started there in 1934, when three Americans began to receive messages, apparently telepathically, which were transcribed to complete the four parts that make up the work, initially deposited in the safe of a bank:

    . 1 - The Central and Superuniverses.
    . 2 - The Local Universe.
    . 3 - The Story of Urantia (Earth).
    . 4 - The Life and Teachings of Jesus.

    In 1950, a group of educated people created the Urantia Foundation and extracted documents to make them public. The first edition came out in 1955, the first version in Castilian, in 1993. The teachings of universal type containing can be summarized in the reality of a Supreme Being self-sustaining, because of mankind, creator and sustainer of all that exists. This God-Father sent his son and his spirit to reside among us to guide us to the truth and the supreme embodiment, which is to make us one with Him in His presence once passed the way of perfection.Whoever they are beings who delivered or entered the work in our world, insist on pointing our simple mortal condition, treatment often used in contrast to the extra-human hierarchies that govern the universe (with which they are continually identified along of the 196 pages).

    According to an extracted internet work (Historical Factors Associated with the materialization of the Urantia Papers), there has not been nor ever will be a adjudicable human authorship to these texts. Always according to the quoted text, nor has there been any "official" interpretation of the papers: "The communications have been written, and we have had the opportunity to hear, they were made by a vast array of beings assumptions that claim to be from other worlds to visit in this curriculum and observation, as they moved from one universe to another, or from one planet to another. " These communications subsequently alleged spiritual beings, as hinted, would have been allocated to this planet to fulfill various missions were attributed. Witnesses agree that no one knows, for sure, who transcribed and how the 196 original chapters of this extraordinary work, and emphasizing their total anonymity.

    A LEGACY metascientific


    The nature of this work that realizes an infinite universe of hierarchies that represent their spiritual understanding of the ethical principles that are combined with the successes and failures of the inhabitants of the worlds created within the game represented by free will in the lives of mortals and immortals, is, at times, very intimidating. Suddenly, evokes the genealogies of HP Lovecraft, equally awe ... what can you tell if someone tells you that a billion years ago the Earth had reached its present size, which is located within a local universe, at a time, is a small particle belonging to the central universe and the super-, which contain about ten million inhabited worlds?

    Can be cited contributions made by the work as anticipations of scientific nature referred before science itself make such discoveries, as in the case of the conditions of some planets in our Solar-System or the affirmation, not yet observed, of the electron is not only divisible, but each comprises high energy hundred microparticles called "ultimatons".

    "This book talks at length about the universe," says Antonio Moya Cerpa-"its structures, its form, its limits, how their energies arise, how they change, how they are born nebulae, suns, planets, etc.. The book is awesome, and there is much wisdom in it, as in the Bible, but we should not be mystified, but analyzed, and we should try to make the best of your content well of the human spirit, our intelligence and our freedom. "

    The text includes topics such as history, sociology, paleontology, archeology, evolution and many others that shape your overall conceptual framework. By claiming the existence of a vast universal organization created to promote the evolution of material creatures to the level of heavenly perfection, mainly basing that developments in the personal experience of the creature at least even skeptics should recognize that this is a book admirably effective in stimulating creative thinking in philosophy, religion and culture.

    The general consensus among thousands of people who have read it is brimming with universal knowledge. Its ramifications are extensive, spilling his wisdom on almost any area of ​​human-spirit and becoming not only a source document for personal spiritual growth and development, but also one of the most important suppliers of information, from the Reformation to revitalization of the Christian Church and the restructuring of theology. Within the New Testament Urantia shines itself the figure of Jesus of Nazareth, an archetype of human perfection that may well guide our lives better.Urantia Book devotes 77 documents the life and teachings of the Master, whom he calls Michael.

    The elevation and spiritualization of the material creature is the primary purpose of our Superuniverse and is the central theme of the Urantia revelation. Every human being on this planet whose mind is normal-that is, capable of moral decision and reaches six years of age, is inhabited by a qualified absolute fragment of the Universal Father. God himself lives in the mind of every person sharing all your thoughts, feelings, joys, sorrows, fears and anxieties, and inspiring guide to personality, but acts only when the creature using his free will-the search on their own initiative . This fragment resident backs every creature experience that is of spiritual value and maintained to be an integral part of the creature to awaken after physical death. Sin as the willful and conscious opposition to the will of the father is defined. Therefore, looking to live the will of God is equivalent to strive to live more and more in harmony with the highest ideals of each. The remission of sins should be understood as the restoration of loyalty relations between the creature and his creator.

    As you see, is a very long road refinement and spiritualization to transform the material creature in an exalted spirit-more than five hundred pre-spiritual levels and scales billion before reaching the Father. After having traveled this path, material creature will become the only universe that knows all possible levels of existence on its own life experience.

    Regarding the reviews, and that there are many, followers of The Urantia Book adopt different poses. The most loyal readers hope that, eventually, all statements contained in the book are proven to be true, even contradicting what the same book says. Other readers accept many of these errors and reject the use of the book as a source of scientific knowledge. Moreover, some scientific advances produced between 1925 (the date alleged in the first edition) and 1955 (date of the first edition), which does not belong in the book are presented by their supporters as proof of his prophetic character, while unbelievers claim that patches are added during the long process of revision and editing.

    RELATION TO THE SCRIPTURES


    The Urantia Book
    is not based on the Bible, but is consistent with his spiritual teachings. It contains, in fact, many more details about the life of Jesus. Scholars estimate that the New Testament describes only 29 separate days of the life of Jesus, while the description of Urantia full 775 pages long history, day by day, the Son of God, who lived on Earth almost 36 years? ? as Son of Man.

    Both sources are in complete agreement on the defense of the spiritual realities of hope, faith, love, grace and eternal life. However, I would stress three doctrines where The Urantia Book fully disagrees certain common biblical interpretations, namely: the infallibility of Scripture, original sin and the doctrine of the atonement.With regard to the doctrine of the infallibility of scripture states that all things that pass through the minds and hands of men become more or less human grade, and no book, including The Urantia Book contains the Final Truth. The revelations of truth from God, but none approaches the revelation of the Father himself, which itself would be complete. Furthermore, God did not stop revealing Himself to His earthly children in the first century of our era. We should honor the sacred scriptures of all religions, without making the mistake of quasi-idolatry, making them virtual object of worship, something God never intended to do. God is the source of truth, not the book, ink on paper, whether the Bible, The Urantia Book or any other writing. A book can be a faithful representation of the highest reality, but not reality itself. The roadmap is not the way.

    The Urantia Book
    rejects the doctrines of original sin and the atonement as a misrepresentation of the love of the Heavenly Father. These doctrines hold that, as a result of Adam's sin, all mankind came to be cursed with the legacy of guilt. Even newborn babies were "children of the devil." Accordingly, God wanted to forgive the man, but could not do it until someone completely innocent pay the price of Adam's sin. In the righteousness of God required blood poured so that He could not count sin and rescue humanity from the clutches of the devil. For this reason, God arranged for Jesus to be sacrificed on the cross. Urantia Book, however, states that the wickedness of man was not God that led Jesus to the cross. It also teaches that God always has love for her children on earth and that nothing can separate an individual from God, except his own personal evil-Jesus died for humanity as lived for her, but God did not require Jesus to die on the cross. Jesus did not need to touch the divine heart of Heavenly Father to love and forgive his earthly children.

    In the final analysis, The Urantia Book can talk or not. If it turned out not be for you, only you've risked a little time to work so fascinating. And if its truths are answered in your heart, your life could change forever. No need to decide in advance if you read in the book is true or false. Just take the issue and read it as fiction. The book contains something for every person who is willing to examine their pages looking for a criterion of truth. The words of Jesus himself asserted that many prophets and great men of antiquity would have wished to understand this wisdom that was not within reach. In the words of the poet, essayist and translator Talens Januarius: "But living is always the adventure we move the other a risk unpunished where wanting to bet more favorable than death ... fate."

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