Courses, lessons - learning programs

The teachings contained in the Urantia Papers are suited to the design of structured learning programs. Courses and lessons allow for a more systematic study of the teachings.  

The Center of Urantia

www.centerurantia.org

The Center of Urantia presents introductory and advanced educational resources based on the teachings, information, and revelations contained in the Urantia Papers.

The courses are designed to facilitate the effective study of the Urantia Papers. They draw on the vast reserves of material contributed by dedicated readers over the past fifty years.

mercy.urantia.org/ubis/

The Urantia Book Internet School - UBIS

The Internet School helps students to study The Urantia Book in an electronic setting without the constraints of distance, timetables, and physical presence. Courses will be given in small classes under the guidance of an experienced teacher/facilitator using the "Questions and Response" technique.

Courses on various levels will be organized in all languages into which The Urantia Book has been translated. Studies will be developed on such topics as Mota Teachings, Personality, Mind, Astronomy, Physics, etc. This new and exciting project is a modern adventure in planetary teamwork. 

http://urantia-anzura.org/index.php?section=45&module=navigationmodule

Undertaking a Personal Study of The Urantia Book

Jeffrey Wattles

www.urantiabook.org/archive/history/sadcrit.htm

Some general questions about the Papers are addressed.

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.)  

www.ubfellowship.org/family/julia2.html#I

Preparing for Marriage and Family - Annotated Bibliography for Parents
Julia K. Fenderson.

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