EDUCATION and SERVICE
The new loyalties of enlarged spiritual vision create new levels of love and devotion, of service and fellowship; and all this enhanced social outlook produces an enlarged consciousness of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. (1101:3)
ARTICLES
A
Source Study of
"Instruction for Teachers and Believers"
(159:3, 1765-67)
The stimulus that prompted this article came from some remarks in a letter from Matthew Block who had just attended the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago...
This essay explores the relationship between one section of The Urantia Book’s "The Life and Teachings of Jesus" and a previously published book, Leslie D. Weatherhead’s Jesus and Ourselves which was clearly its main source. It appears that much of the content of hundreds of sections in Part IV was derived from a relatively small number of American and British books published between the 1880s and the 1930s. This analysis contributes to a greatly enhanced understanding of the Papers, showing how ingeniously the original and derived elements of the narrative are woven together.
How we conduct our outreach ministry is more important than when or where we introduce people to The Urantia Book. Indifference and social opposition must be met with love, intellectual candor and good humor...
A Special Task With Christianity?
The concept of Mind in itself, in the abstract, unlimited sense of the word, does not imply free will, but the individual mind, mortal mind, has freewill as an inseparable, defining component...
It would appear so. There are many statements in the Papers that appear to express the hopes of the revelators that some kind of renewal movement will take the churches back to the original teachings of Jesus...
Why would one even want to organise the soul for dynamic service? Why should the individual organise the soul for dynamic service? What factors come into play that cause us to ponder this idea of organising our souls for service? This presentation deals with the broader picture—an idealistic and philosophical view of the individual’s inner life quest for God.
Usually only a combination of tradition, social acceptance, and a firsthand knowledge of its quality will answer questions about the origins of revelatory literature. However, the message of The URANTIA Book has amazing self-authentication and consistency...
Anybody who is versed in The Urantia Book knows that our eternal career consists of continuous and ceaseless training, adventure, charting of the unknown. This is due to our being destined to learn to know the absolute God, and, the Absolute will; after one goal has been achieved, there always present themselves an endless number of new challenges, new goals to be achieved...
