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Hello B'midbar:)Yes. God definitely is a person. The most perfect personality in the universe. God can only be known if He is a Person. The Universal Father is also the source and destiny of human personalities.Exodus 15:11"Who among the gods is like you, O LORD ? Who is like you—...

Hello B'midbar!:angel9:The value of the book is the stupendous teachings on God and universe reality. The UB also clarifies many historical events on our planet that were never thoroughly understood. The book also expands and greatly illuminates the life of Jesus on earth roughly two thousand...

Greetings Swampfox!:shepard: To clarify, what I meant was that God accepts truth from whatever the source... even if it is mixed in with falsehoods and superstitions. Tell me, if someone gave you a book on how to be a stand up comedian... would you keep the book even if you didn't agree with a...

John 16:13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.John 14:17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him...

Well, the UB urges us to strive for perfection... and that as we progress in the universe we become more and more like Him, but always in a limited and partial way because we will never be infinite. You can kind of think of how like a human child can strive and become like his earthly father...

Hello Kriss! I am a Urantia Book reader so let me share with you my take on your words. I can assure you that the Urantia Book is of the highest philosophical, theological and scientific quality. It is a definite Theistic work with many, many chapters on various divine personalities and one...

Hello Everyone:) I was interested if any of you have heard of the urantia book and what you think about it and would also like to have a friendly dialogue on the differences and similarities. Adios:shepard: Here is a little introduction if you haven't heard of it taken from truthbook.com"What...

I understand your concerns. Let me give you a few passages on what you bring up.On the Justice of God....2:3.2 How futile to make puerile appeals to such a God to modify his changeless decrees so that we can avoid the just consequences of the operation of his wise natural laws and righteous...

140:5.20 4. "Happy are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Happy are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in...

4:5.3 The people of Urantia continue to suffer from the influence of primitive concepts of God. The gods who go on a rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who inflict their judgments of displeasure in times of famine and flood -- these are...

53:8.4 The Son of Man was confident of success, and he knew that his triumph on your world would forever settle the status of his agelong enemies, not only in Satania but also in the other two systems where sin had entered. There was survival for mortals and security for angels when your Master...

3:5.10 5. "Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible."97:8.1 "The custom of looking upon the record of the experiences of the Hebrews as sacred history and upon the...

3. Melchizedek of Salem. This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Earth. The cardinal precepts of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was the act by which men earned God's favor. His...

On fetishes..."In olden times the fetish word of authority was a fear-inspiring doctrine, the most terrible of all tyrants which enslave men. A doctrinal fetish will lead mortal man to betray himself into the clutches of bigotry, fanaticism, superstition, intolerance, and the most atrocious of...

I am a moderator of the forum, but I am not a member of any associations.The Talk With NathanielAnd then went Jesus over to Abila, where Nathaniel and his associates labored. Nathaniel was much bothered by some of Jesus' pronouncements which seemed to detract from the authority of the recognized...

Hey Betchevy,Well, in my opinion faith is a living reality, it isn't a group of beliefs. 102:6.4 Faith transforms the philosophic God of probability into the saving God of certainty in the personal religious experience.In regards to God moving, this may clarify it.1:5.5 In the local creations...

In respect to salvation, I agree with you: "When you know that you are saved by faith, you have real peace with God.And all who follow in the way of this heavenly peace are destined to be sanctified to the eternal service of the ever-advancing sons of the eternal God. Henceforth, it is not a...

Hello Betchevy,I am familiar with the Bible. My father is an elder at his church and I have had innumerable discussions about biblical beliefs with him over the years. I also grew up as a catholic and went to a private religious school for over eight years. I found the urantia book as a senior...

Greetings.In the Urantia Book it states many, many times that real religion is a personal experience between the individual and God. "Always keep in mind: True religion is to know God as your Father and man as your brother." Therefore it wasn't meant to be a written centerpiece for a religious...

About four o'clock on Sabbath afternoon, May 13, the Master appeared to Nalda and about seventy-five Samaritan believers near Jacob's well, at Sychar. The believers were in the habit of meeting at this place, near where Jesus had spoken to Nalda concerning the water of life. On this day, just as...