ANALYSES OF
Analyses of the Text
Text Changes in the Urantia Papers
Urantia Papers and The Bible - Comparative Studies
Human Sources for Text in the Urantia Papers
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Source
Related Studies
Publications by Matthew Block dating from 1992-3 to the present day.
These studies from Square Circles Publishing are a comprehensive analysis of the human sources of the material found in the Urantia Papers.
The titles of the various publications include:
- The World’s Religions (2003)
- The Rodan Parallels (2003)
- The Urantia Atmosphere
- Mota the Coda / Part Two (2002)
- Consider the Source (2002)
- Instructions for Teachers and Believers (2000)
- Morontia Mota, a New Perspective / Part One (2000)
- Race in Context (1999)
- Gardner, York and Block (1997)
- Some Human Sources of The Urantia Book (1992-1993)
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Selections
from Authors thought to be Urantia Book "Sources"
Research into the
human sources used by the revelators in the construction of the text of The
Urantia Book is just beginning. The resources on this page are provided to
encourage additional study and exploration and to provide a sense of the way in
which human resources have been used in the construction of the text.
Source Authors of the Urantia Book
by J.
T. Manning
A publication available from Amazon.com.
J. T. Manning profiles twenty-four God-knowing men and women whose insights and inspirations were incorporated into the Urantia Papers. Each chapter contains a biographical sketch of the source author, an analysis of his work, a list of his books and selected published articles, a list of secondary works about the author and his work, and reviews about the particular book(s) sourced by the Urantia Book.
ANALYSES OF THE TEXT
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Science, Anthropology and Archaeology in
The Urantia Book
Part 3. Who Wrote the Urantia Papers?
by
Methodology
for Determining Authorship
Was
Dr Sadler an author?
Could
a single human mind be the source of the Papers?
The author concludes that we do not have a sensible, rational proposal about human authorship of the Papers. But any conclusion claiming other-than-human authorship is unprovable. As the Papers themselves tell us—our personal decision must be an act of faith. Does the spiritual content of the Urantia Papers makes them self-authenticating?
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Computer
Analyses of Dates in The Urantia Book
by Matt Neibaur, M.D.
Scientific Symposium I 1988
In part four of the book, The Life and
Teachings of Jesus, there are numerous references to dates. Dates and weekdays
are listed unequivocally. Is there any way to check on these dates? Was
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Christ
Names in the Urantia Papers
By Ernest Moyer
The Urantia Papers uses six words or
phrases for the personality we knew as Jesus. These are: Jesus Christ, Christ
Jesus, Christ, Christ Michael, Jesus, and Michael.
Careful study of these words and phrases demonstrates clearly that no human
being could have created or edited the Urantia Papers.
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Urantia Book
Etymology and Human Languages:
Similation Over Inspiration
by Jon Greer. Courtesy of the
Brotherhood of Man Library
Like its cosmology, the
Urantia Book's etymology of proper names and terminologies is not inspired, and
early accommodation of this truth may help forestall disillusionment from a
linguistic inquiry of its pages.
RESEARCH
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Criticisms answered in this document:
1. Theologians and the seminary professors will never endorse The Urantia Book.
2. The Urantia Book is a revival of Gnosticism.
3. There seems to be nothing new or original about the cosmology.
4. Urantia completely ignores the Biblical teachings about man.
5. Why shouldn't the person who put the Urantia Papers in written English be known?
6. There is no doctrine of sin in The Urantia Book. Neither is there a plan of salvation for lost man.
7. The goal of salvation represents a prolonged scheme of training and even then is indefinite and uncertain.
8. The loving, kind, and tolerant heavenly Father presented in The Urantia Book is not the God of Exodus who saves sinners.
9. The Urantia Book almost completely ignores the prophets of the Old Testament.
10. The Urantia Book is a commonplace hodgepodge of verbiage, just such as numerous automatic writers have produced.
11. The atonement has vanished in The Urantia Book. So has the majestic and jealous God who punishes his people when they go whoring after other gods.
12. While there are to be found some new ideas in The Urantia Book, there is not revealed any startling new institution.
13. The Urantia Book takes away the centrality of Christ in the Christian faith.
14. As regards science, this book is dated. It presents a very good picture of the way we looked at the cosmos many years ago.
15. The teachings of Jesus as presented in The Urantia Book can be found in a thousand different books, especially in writings prior to 1930.
16. The narrative of the earlier years of Jesus' life impressed me as being very ordinary, even sophomoric.
17. In my opinion The Urantia Book is a fraud -- a hoax. Those who perpetrated this book are criminals.
18. The Urantia Book contains no new and original concepts. There is really nothing new in its presentation of cosmology, philosophy and religion. (In reply to this criticism, I submit 64 concepts and doctrines which are new and original as presented in The Urantia Book, not to mention more than one hundred additional narratives which represent enlargement, amplification, and clarification of existing knowledge.)
TEXT CHANGES IN THE URANTIA PAPERS
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Computer
Analysis of Printings of The Urantia Book
Publisher's Changes, 1955-1999.
Copyright © 2000, Merritt Horn.
Introductory Notes
I. Summary of Conclusions for the Impatient Reader
IV. Critical Apparatus
A. Classification of Editorial Intent
for Changes in the Text
C.
Abbreviations; editions of The Urantia Book
V. Changes in Urantia Foundation editions of The Urantia
Book (1955-1999)
Changes
in 0:0.0 through 42:5.1
Changes
in 42:6.7 through 69:3.9
Changes
in 71:7.2 through 110:5.2
Changes in 117:7.4 through 196:3.29
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Text
Changes in the Urantia Papers
By Ernest P. Moyer.
In the author’s opinion, this analysis shows nothing in the changes which would indicate that the text was produced by human mortals. The small number of errors and the manner in which they were handled, shows an attempt to maintain integrity to an original document. The changes do not show arbitrary alterations guided by the wishes of some human author.
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A
Catalog of Changes to the Original Text of The Urantia Book.
Compiled from a variety of sources by
Urantia Papers and The Bible - Comparative Studies
The Paramony
by Duane Faw.
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There are two ways to use the Paramony:
Select a Urantia Paper and see related Bible references - you specify the Paper from The Urantia Book for which you wish to see Bible cross-references. Sorted in ascending order by first edition page number as well as Paper: Section. Paragraph. You may choose to read any of the Papers from The Urantia Book or to see a list of cross-references for the paper you select.
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The
Urantia Book and the Bible:
A Comparative Study of The Life and Teachings of Jesus
Note: This study has been compiled from the notes of Dr.
