ABOUT the URANTIA PAPERS
My revelatory commission forbade me to resort to extrahuman sources of either information or expression until such a time as I could testify that I had failed in my efforts to find the required conceptual expression in purely human sources. (1343:2)
ARTICLES
Calendar reform and methods of measuring time are interesting. 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...?
Some of our Urantia Book fundamentalists firmly believe in the absolute truth of everything in the book's textual material, much like Christian fundamentalists believe in the divine dictatorship theory for the Bible - despite the warnings given by the Revelators...
Ostensibly they are a group of papers that purport to introduce humanity to "religion of the spirit"--in contrast to the "religions of authority" as presently practiced by mankind...
We Urantia Book readers are only just beginning to realise that Part 4 of the book is not only an archaeological treasure-house but that it is also a means of comparing what we find written in the book with the results of modern scholastic research, both biblical and archaeological.
What do we say when people ask us what the papers are? The answer we give will be crucial to their first impression of us and of the papers, and as we all know, first impressions are crucial. The main goal of this essay is to shed some light on our understanding of revelation; it hopes to distinguish between divine truth(s) and divine revelation as the revelators use those terms.
The location of Biblical Bethsaida has been a vexed problem of Biblical scholarship for almost two hundred years, and a problem in the history of Christian pilgrimage since at least the sixth century.
It has taken almost fifty years for those initial expectations regarding the Papers to be recognized as erroneous by any substantial portion of the readership. Surely it is now time for a rethink about where we are heading...
Recent discoveries concerning the use of human source materials in The Urantia Book have proven both enlightening and disturbing to Urantia Book readers. Many teachings of The Urantia Book are parallel thoughts, gems of truth, or concepts found in other literature. This essay provides an explanatory context for unraveling the process of revelation used in the creation of The Urantia Book.
The "forty day" error is the last, the most obvious, and the most conclusive in the Urantia Papers. It is followed by some of their most magnificent material. It appears to be impossible to assume this particular error is not there for a very good reason...
Nowhere in The Urantia Book do its authors claim it is the "Fifth Epochal Revelation". Revelation could have special significance, even epochal significance, but still not fall within the defines of "epochal revelation."...
The
Urantia Book Why
are its readers challenged with over 2000 pages of profuse facts and prodigious
names???...
The Urantia Book proclaims: Life on Earth is only the tip of the iceberg!
The drama of eternity has only just begun! A cosmic adventure beckons!...
A Leap of Faith How was it that at the ripe old age of sixteen I found myself debating myself about the existence of God? Perhaps no one tried to indoctrinate me with their theology - thank goodness...
How Christian Is The Urantia Book? Some day when scholars study the religious influences of the twentieth and twenty first centuries, I am sure that The Urantia Book will be one of those influences studied. And inevitably, the theology of the book will be compared to Christian thought and theology...
Who Wrote The Urantia Book? Various skeptics have put forward the names of a number of single authors... And there are extra difficulties involved in maintaining consistency when multiple authors contribute to the same work... particularly before computers, data bases, and search-and-find computer programmes...
Tarichea Whereas The Urantia Book places Tarichea at a location where the Jordan River flows out from the Sea of Galilee (p.1561), many authorities now assert that Tarichea was the Greco-Roman name for Magdala, reputedly the hometown of Mary Magdelene...
The Purpose of Revelation The purpose of revelation is to reveal and enlarge spiritual truth. All presentations of revelation are communicated in the intellectual-cultural frames of reference of the times in which they are given.
