How can The Urantia Book help?
Where is it on the big issues?
The Urantia Book teaches that human beings are equally children of God and highlights the importance of the intelligent design behind biological differences.
Obviously, biology works to preserve the distinction between male and female, in contrast to racial differences, which homogenize, eventually, into one race. Today, well intentioned and educated people are losing their minds over these simple facts of life. People are treating their family and friends, young and old, horribly over these issues. They are having trouble accepting that being spiritually equal before God does not mean we are physically or mentally or experientially equal before each other.
If this does not qualify as a time of tribulation, I would hate to imagine what more one needs than this—radically unscientific thinking trying to dictate the social policies of a county with a history of worldwide leadership!?!
1) Marriage and Family
(84:5.12) Each sex has its own distinctive sphere of existence, together with its own rights within that sphere. If woman aspires literally to enjoy all of man’s rights, then, sooner or later, pitiless and emotionless competition will certainly replace that chivalry and special consideration which many women now enjoy, and which they have so recently won from men.
(150:1.3) It was most astounding in that day, when women were not even allowed on the main floor of the synagogue (being confined to the women’s gallery), to behold them being recognized as authorized teachers of the new gospel of the kingdom.
See Topical Study: Is The Urantia Book “gay friendly?”
2) Genetics and Race
Race is used to avoid talking about a problem that transcends race. Intelligence has a hereditary aspect to it. More intelligent people tend to become affluent and this leads to zero, even negative, population growth. Left unaddressed, this issue destroys democracy. So, if racially similar people cannot address themselves to this issue, what hope do we have of solving the problem by adding interracial challenges to it? Let’s take this step by step. See Topical Study: Genetic Introductions, Mutations, and Evolution: a Urantia Book perspective.
3) Government
Teachings on the individual level include: (140:8.2) 1. Doing the Father’s will. Jesus’ teaching to trust in the overcare of the heavenly Father was not a blind and passive fatalism. He quoted with approval, on this afternoon, an old Hebrew saying: “He who will not work shall not eat.”
On the group level, there are three sequential sections that give the broad brush perspective on government:
Sovereignty–Human and Divine
Political Sovereignty
Law, Liberty, and Sovereignty
You met Halbert, the herald?
Are you new to The Urantia Book?
The following highlights will quickly let you know if this is truly where you want to be (The Urantia Book was published in 1955, seven years before I was born. But everything else here, unless otherwise noted, is my own independent, unaffiliated, non commercial work):
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Did we speak about the Biblical prophecies related to Melchizedek (the Hebrew name for King of Righteousness) and/or the crisscrossing 2017 and 2024 full solar eclipses at the Bald Knob Cross of Peace, which have dates corresponding to Jesus’ birthday and the day in the tomb, according to The Urantia Book? If we did or if this sounds intriguing, see the Topical Study:
Prophecy and “signs of the times.”
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If you especially enjoy video presentations, the one below has been very well received! It provides perspective on The Urantia Book and reviews a few of the more impressive UBtheNEWS reports, which document how new discoveries and scientific advances increasingly support the account of planetary history found in The Urantia Book.
Additional Study Aids and Info
1) The Urantia Book, plus Annotations
Annotations: Use the study notes while you read a hardcopy. Or with this online publication, you can experiment using separate tabs and windows to see what works best for you.
2) UBtheNEWS reports and research pages
The UBtheNEWS project primarily focuses on how new discoveries and scientific advances increasingly support the presentation of planetary history found in The Urantia Book. Ten years after launching UBtheNEWS, UBannotated was developed to provide study aids for all aspects of The Urantia Book.
Reports, research pages, and related study aids
UBtheNEWS general information page
3) Study Aids
The Topical Studies page is thematically organized. The Study Aids page provides additional access to a wide range of study aids, including translations and pages that focus on the contributions of other Urantia Book scholars.
4) UBtheNEWS YouTube channel
Let’s just say, I’ve been running some experiments. I’ll leave it that for now, and you can check it out, as you like. Don’t forget to subscribe!
5) More by and about Halbert
Halbert Katzen: more Videos/Audios/Writings
