Aug. 4, 2025
10 Teachings That Will Change The World
This episode covers two very important topics. First, the ten most important Ueantia Book teachings that could change the world.
Plus, examining how the teachings of Christianity and the Jewish faith have made the world a better place, and how the Urantia Book continues the thread of religious revelation into the future.
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OK, so it's time for another
edition of the Rancho Radio.
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Podcast.
And I am your host.
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Jim Watkins is my name.
Long time reader since 1982.
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I even wrote it on my book on
the inside flap the day I
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started reading the book.
And that was a long, long time
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ago.
And it's good to be here and I
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want to share.
A lot with you today.
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I've been writing a lot of
notes.
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I haven't been keeping my normal
regiment because life gets
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complicated and we're all so
busy trying to keep.
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Up right.
And that's me too.
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And I.
Apologize because I I.
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So long to have that time with
you to.
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Talk about the fifth epical.
Revelation So many things that
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go through my mind about so
much.
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Just a couple of things that.
We will talk about today the 10.
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Things I I started to think.
About how could.
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The Urantia book Change the
World.
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That thought often comes into my
mind.
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Maybe you too when you're
reading a a passage.
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That light goes.
Off in your head and you say, my
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God, if, if everybody could
experience the feeling of
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knowing what I've just learned,
how much of a difference would
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that make in the world?
And there's so many things wrong
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in the.
World I I just.
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Had a conversation with my son
and he's in his mid 20s and he's
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perplexed by how much evil is in
the world.
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I'm not sure if it's always been
this bad, I think we just see it
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more.
Easily, because everybody is.
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On their smartphones, we're
getting to hear what other
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people are thinking all of the
time.
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That has to be.
Part of the problem.
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It's too much information.
I saw a.
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Woman, she recorded herself and
she's.
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Got a little baby?
She's holding the baby and she
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says, you know, the best thing
you can do right now is get rid
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of your smartphone, go back to
the landline and spend time with
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your kids and don't get.
Distracted by.
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Everything else that's going on
in the world, I sometimes think
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that's probably.
Good advice, so we'll talk
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about. 10 year Rancho book
concepts in a little bit.
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Also I want to talk about
Christianity.
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I think a lot about
Christianity, and you and I
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have.
Talked about.
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The role of Christianity in the
world and I have some insights I
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want to share with you about.
That before we take our break to
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pay the bills, as they say.
I want to direct you back.
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Over to the Urantia radio.org
website, urantiaradio.org.
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It's getting, it's getting more
and more where I want it to be
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my.
Podcaster archive.
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There it also has a.
Description so that you can kind
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of thumb through and you can.
See looking backwards what?
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Some of the.
Other podcasts were about.
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There's also an icon where you
can leave a message, not write a
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message.
But actually.
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Speak into your phone and tell
me what's on your mind, if
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you've got a book question or if
you've.
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Got a thought?
Or or even if you just want to
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say.
Howdy, it's so easy.
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Just go to yourrancherradio.org.
And look.
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For the little blue.
Ribbon on the side and it says
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record a message.
And you just hit it and you
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start recording.
And if you don't want me to use
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the message, then leave that
message too, and I won't hear
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it.
And also on the tail end of this
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episode, I want to talk a little
bit about my interview with
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Halbert Katzen, which you can
hear on the urantiaradio.org.
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Website just looking for the.
Live stream icon and that will.
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Take you to.
My new live stream.
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That I just set.
Up and and what that live stream
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is, it's kind of cool that you
can listen to Urantia music, you
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can listen to all the music.
That we feature.
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Here with David Dinger, you can
listen to past interviews.
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That go back 5.
Years, in fact, my first
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interview with Larry Mullen.
Is is.
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On the live stream, I'm going to
keep it.
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Up there for a couple weeks.
So I know a lot of plug Ola
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going on there, but.
Let's take a quick break.
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And we'll come back and we'll
talk about the 10 things the
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Urantia book says that I believe
will completely change the world
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when we continue on the Urantia
Radio.
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Podcast.
Welcome back to the Rancho Radio
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Podcast.
I just wanted to give you kind
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of a moment to decompress.
I I gave.
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It some thought and I want to
share some of my.
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Ideas with you about we we do.
Spend a lot of time reading the
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book and and in this episode we
we won't be reading any.
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Papers, but we will talk about
the.
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Book and its impact on on.
The world at.
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Large and obviously it is a
revelation.
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It it compares itself on the
same level as Melchizedek, even
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the revelation of Jesus Christ
when he presented.
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The Father to us.
In human form.
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And now here we are, 2000 years.
Later with a book that.
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Proclaims itself an epical
revelation and so in order to
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put itself in that position of
importance, I think it's.
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Important for us to look at.
What the Urantia book says in
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totality in a summary form, and
then extrapolate from that what
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that knowledge would do and what
it means for the world.
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And so at the very.
Top of the list here are the. 10
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Urantia book concepts.
I believe if they were widely.
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Understood and embraced could
realistically change the
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direction of of human.
Society for the better.
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Along with examples.
Of how they could.
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Work in.
Practice.
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So at the very top of the list,
the.
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Idea of a universal.
Fatherhood of God the.
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Teaching is that all humans are
children of one God, no
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exceptions.
Now think of the impact if that
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was embraced.
Number one, it would end racial,
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national and religious
superiority claims #2 it would
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create a sense of true global
family and as an example,
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government schools.
Religious groups could focus on
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building unity rather than
dividing along identity lines.
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That from the one singular truth
and the embracement of the
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truth, if we could get to that
point.
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Where we could actually say, as
Jesus taught over it was the
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core.
Principle of his of his teaching
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it was the reason he came here
was to introduce.
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Us to his father, that as the
eldest.
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Son, think about that, the
universality.
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Of the fatherhood of God.
Now I know that the Christianity
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teaches the Father in heaven,
but somehow it it has managed
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to.
Be perceived as a.
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Western religion I don't see any
other faith saying that the.
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Father is the fatherhood of all
people.
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Even people who don't believe in
the.
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Fatherhood of God, He is still
their Father.
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And it's.
Because of that equal.
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Disbursement of His grace that
we can all say we're brothers
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and sisters in the spiritual
sense and that leads to the next
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concept that the.
Urantia book teaches.
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That, if embraced, could change
the spiritual tone of this world
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#2 the brotherhood and
sisterhood of man.
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Every human being is spiritually
equal and equally loved.
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And think of the impact if if
that concept was embraced.
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It would end prejudice, bigotry,
discrimination.
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It would lose all of these
things, would lose their moral
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legitimacy.
The idea of us.
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Being a brotherhood and a
sisterhood of man, mankind, the
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human, it fosters empathy across
cultural and political.
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Divides, as Jesus taught.
All men are your.
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Brothers love them as you love
yourself.
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And think about all the
conflicts that might be solved
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with immigration and foreign
policy and humanitarianism and
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and they would be guided by a
moral kinship rather than
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complete self-interest.
But.
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It starts with the seed of the
idea of of the.
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Brotherhood and sisterhood,
concept of a universal religion.
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That is.
Based on the.
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Fatherhood of God.
And then here's #3 which is a
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big one.
The thought adjuster.
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If if human beings were
cognizant of the fact.
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That they were in.
Possession of the Spirit,
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fragment of the Father in their
minds.
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A literal.
Fragment of God indwelling every
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normal human being.
Regardless of their.
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Race, their creed, their gender,
it doesn't matter.
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But think of the.
The effect it would have.
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If everyone felt dignified in
knowing that they had the
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fragment of the living Father
within the citadel of their
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mind, every person would see
themselves.
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As a sacred part of God.
Each would have eternal meaning.
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We would understand that it is
that fragment that survives and.
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Carries us forward.
Justice systems focused on
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rehabilitation and potential
rather than only punishment.
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You know, because our current
justice system, and it may be
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somewhat partially true, maybe
not, but mostly we think that of
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serious offenders as being
irredeemable, but.
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I've heard stories I've.
Got friends who?
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Collect stories of.
Redemption, and it's there and
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that redemption, where does it
come from?
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It comes from the notion of a
human being connecting with God
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and turning their life over to
Him and how it changes people
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once they connect with that
spirit fragment number.
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Four.
What else?
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Could the.
Urantia Book.
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Teach the World.
How about the eternal?
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Life as the true goal, the.
Teaching of mortal life being
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but the first stage of an
eternal spiritual career.
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Now the Urantia.
Book does teach us.
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That the day-to-day living is
very important and we are not to
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forsake.
That we have a duty to live
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this.
Part of our immortal life, our
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existence as good citizens,
faithful servants, indeed as
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brothers in a spiritual Kingdom.
But to teach that this is only
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one segment of a longer period
of time that stretches into the
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future.
Will there be less?
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Apprehension and fear and
anxiety about death.
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I mean, you think you know, say
people.
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Say that they.
Invented religion because.
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Well, because people are afraid.
Of dying well.
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Absolutely they're afraid of
we're all.
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Afraid of dying?
We're all afraid of our
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mortality.
Who wouldn't be if if animals
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knew that they were going to
die?
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They'd be a little upset about
that.
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They don't know that, they don't
conceive you of death in the way
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that we do, but it's that
conception of the potential for
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there not to be.
Death that.
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Distinguishes us from our animal
cousins because we know that
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this is going to end and we
think, well then what's next?
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Nothing.
That's what secularism teaches
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and that's where the moral panic
starts to arise and emerge.
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People living for long term soul
growth rather than short term
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materialism would have a
transformative effect on a human
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being the the the normal and
average.
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Pitfalls of everyday.
Life would be lessened.
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The burden of that lessened
knowing that everything that in
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your life has intrinsic value
and meaning.
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How much?
Does that elevate your?
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Purpose in life and man, let me
tell you what the, the anxiety,
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that mental illness, the all of
the different afflictions where,
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where's that message going to
come from #5 the religion of
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personal spiritual experience.
True religion is a personal
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connection with God.
It is not a religious adherence
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to creeds or institutions.
It is those things.
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It is.
Those characteristics of.
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Evolutionary religion that drive
modern man away from God, not
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to.
God that they have to follow.
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A certain amount of rules or.
That they have to.
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Pray so many times a day or that
they have to do something on one
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day but not do it on the.
No, God is an is a 24/7
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operation.
But what that means is that that
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that personal.
Religious experience is the.
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Only requirement.
To live a religious.
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Life and that transformative
effect would make people
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naturally want to be better
people, number six.
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Jesus has the.
Revelation of God's character
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teaching so much of the the
gospel, so much of the New
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Testament is based on the
resurrection of Christ, and we
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shouldn't downplay or undermine
the importance of that.
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But that's not why he.
Lived.
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He lived to show us the.
Revelation of God's character.
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He who has seen me has seen the
Father.
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Christ is the highest.
Representative of the Eternal
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Father of any personality.
He revealed God's.
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Love in his life.
It it was literally.
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As God was on earth.
I hear a lot of people say.
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One comes from Alice.
Cooper of all people.
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He says when you really figure
out, when you come to that point
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in your life, when you really.
Realize who Jesus was.
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That's when it changes.
Your life faith.
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Becomes a new way of life.
It's not just merely a.
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Password or a ticket?
To heaven when you get to.
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The pearly Gates.
They don't ask.
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You your password, but they if
they do.
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You might just mention Jesus.
Just just say it.
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It might be a universal.
Password but.
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They're not going to ask you
that.
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They'll know it already.
He'll know it already.
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The other thing that the
revelation of the life.
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Of Jesus, which the.
Urantia Book presents in 700.
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Pages is that faith becomes a
way of life.
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It is just the the.
The rule of conduct, ethics,
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mercy and service become central
and also natural.
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It becomes natural through the
habit of doing.
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Good example of.
This is the church.
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Prioritizes feeding the hungry,
sheltering the homeless, and
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mentoring the lonely over
building wealth so those become
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the important things in a
community doing good the.
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Best way to serve the will of
God is to do good. #7 is the
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integration of science,
philosophy and religion, which
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comprises the Urantia book.
The Urantia book shows that
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science, philosophy and
religion.
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Are are all three?
Aspects of the same.
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Core reality.
Mind, matter, spirit.
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And so forth.
And it also ends the divide.
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The Urantia book would end the
divide between faith and
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science.
It.
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It says that technology is good
with moral vision, environmental
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and AI ethics.
Could be guided by both
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scientific data.
And spiritual values.
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Another thing that the Arantia
book and I put it on my list is
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number 8 is progressive
civilization, Civilizations
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naturally.
Evolved toward peace, justice.
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And global unity is citizens
grow morally.
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That is, that is.
The thing that seems to be
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missing?
Everybody's wondering.
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How are we headed?
For the future, what kind of
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world are we going to be?
What?
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What are people?
Going to be like 100 years from
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now, 1000 year.
Well, we won't be here, not in
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the way that we can imagine
today, unless we grow morally.
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The Urantia book more than once
says Destruction, Survival.
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It's your choice.
On an individual level and on a
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group level, there's nothing
that says that they can't start
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over.
With this.
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But if it happens that way.
It's not going to be God causing
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a flood, it's going to be us
making bad decisions, doing
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things like going to war with
nuclear weapons or trashing up
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the entire planet with plastics
and, and, and in that regard
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becoming less materialistic.
Would be a good.
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Thing #9 service we we need to
somehow transition from purely
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profit.
To service the.
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Wantingness.
The desire.
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To serve others.
That is the highest.
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Human duty.
That is what the Urantia book
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teaches.
People say, well, what?
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Does it teach?
Well, it teaches that service.
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Is the highest human.
Duty service is the the true.
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Path to greatness.
Selfishness.
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Is the root of decay.
And if.
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We were to take.
In this revelation reverses the
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glorification of greed,
strengthens communities, and
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creates an environment of social
honor and reward systems.
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Celebrate acts of service.
As much as wealth or fame, it's
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it's interesting in the paper on
what government is like on
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another planet it.
It talks about the idea that
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their society upholds.
Loyalty its citizens reward.
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Loyalty.
They see that as people that are
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loyal.
Servants to the government.
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Or representatives for their.
State or national government,
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they don't get.
Away with.
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Some of the stuff.
We see.
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Are you?
See all the infighting going on
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politically.
They're they're, they're seeking
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political power.
And that is their.
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Their desire.
But that's not the way a society
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can't.
Be that way.
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Ultimately for the.
Good of the people we have to
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have.
Representatives and people.
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That get elected that.
Do so with honor and integrity.
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And then finally, I think
probably the greatest
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pronouncement that the Urantia
book makes is cosmic
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citizenship.
Now I only speak from my own
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experience, but when I was
younger reading the Urantia book
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the.
The.
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Idea of there being cosmic of
being a a resident of a universe
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as opposed to a small planet.
Was it an enormous jump for me
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in in understanding the cosmos I
I no longer lived on an island.
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I was now a citizen of the
spiritual Kingdom, and as a
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citizen and and as a an.
Ambassador, it is up.
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For me or you?
Or others who adopt.
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That citizenship that we.
Hold ourselves to a higher
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standard, we hold ourselves to a
higher power, and we.
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Recognize that we are being
judged.
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By how we behave.
Especially when you're given
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the.
Truth to he Who.
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Has been given much much as.
Expected.
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So we should probably just take
a little bit of a break, just a
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little.
Bit of a music interlude again,
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and then I'll come back and I
want to talk a little bit about
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my interview with Howard Katzen,
which you can listen to on the
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stream live icon on
urantiaradio.org.
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And we'll get to that a little.
Bit because I have some thoughts
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about that and then also.
Let's talk about let's.
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Talk about compatibility of
Christianity based on the
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teachings of the Urantia book.
O hang on just for a few
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seconds.
We'll be right back.
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I wanted to talk about and I
will talk about it maybe in the
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next episode about the 10
commandments.
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I've been doing some thinking
about the 10 commandments and I
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wanted.
To trace back.
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Where they came from and what I
came up with based on the
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Urantia book I believe and
somebody please correct me.
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Go to yourranchoradio.org or
e-mail me at
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urantiabookradio@gmail.com.
I believe that the that.
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What were the Dalmatian
commandments which later became
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the Supreme commandments?
Of of the 1st.
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Garden and the second garden
with Adam and Eve.
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And then we had.
The the School of.
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Melchizedek and what he.
Taught his disciples.
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And they were sort of more or
less like the commandments, but
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they have all a running theme.
And then of course, what we're
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left with today in the modern
age is this 10 commandments from
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Moses going back to Exodus
receiving these commandments.
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It's a great story.
It's a great story and it's a
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story.
That unfortunately, the world
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does not know about and in the
next.
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Episode.
I'll spend a little bit of time
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on it.
I think that they.
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Can be traced back.
To the Veranda Deck Suns and
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I'll just leave it there, OK,
because I don't want to spoil
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it.
Another thought that had
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occurred to me because.
You've if you've.
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Listened to these podcasts, you
know that I consider myself a
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new Christian and I don't know,
maybe I, I identified, explained
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what that means, but to me, a
new Christian.
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Who is it?
Halverson, Chris Halverson, who
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is in in the study groups and a
huge longtime reader and
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influencer in the Urantia
movement.
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One quote I heard.
Him say is that?
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People have a tendency to pour
new wine into old wineskins,
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meaning we take revelation and
we immediately try to make it.
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Adapt to our.
Previous conceptions.
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Of what?
Our religious.
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Faith is, and I've done that
with the Urantia book.
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I I grew up a Christian.
My mom occasionally would make
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us go to school, I mean go to
church, and we had a good time
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and all that.
And I learned enough so that
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later in life, when I was
searching for meaning and value,
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it was natural for me to draw
upon the well of my Christian
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upbringing and when the Urantia
book was introduced into my
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life.
I was able to because of the
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soil.
Of Christianity, the seeds of
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the Urantia.
Book were able to sprout rather
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quickly, but.
The the thing that makes that
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important, which I'll.
Address is that.
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Christianity versus other worlds
religions or or.
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Creeds is.
Not all that compatible.
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For example, Islam is not really
compatible with Christianity.
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It has some similarities and,
but they're not.
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If you ask it typically, it'd be
rare for.
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You to find someone who is
deeply Islamic to ever switch to
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Christianity.
Unless, of course, Christ came
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into his heart and there was
some circumstance I could see.
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That.
Communism is not compatible with
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Christianity in many.
Ways the LGBTQ.
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Agenda is not compatible with
Christianity, especially since
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they've.
Decided to strike a.
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War against traditional family
which is compatible with
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Christianity?
Christianity is more compatible.
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With the Jewish faith, except
for.
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The personality of Christ and
his divinity.
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Globalism is not even compatible
with Christianity, although you
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would think in extrapolating
some of the truths from the
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Urantia book that it might be.
But it really isn't, because
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globalism lends itself to
centralized power and
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centralized power unless it's
the most highs of Edentia or if
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it's a planetary Prince.
Or Jesus himself, globalism.
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Will not work if it's managed by
men, of that I am convinced,
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even though that might not.
Be 1000.
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Years from now.
Maybe if we.
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Become more morally fragrant.
It's possible, but for right
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now, the way globalism is set
up, it's more about control and
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power.
Than it is about love of God or
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the the spiritual truths.
So what's compatible with?
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Christianity.
Well, I already mentioned one
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strong family.
Is the bedrock of a truly
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advanced society.
If you read the.
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Papers on marriage and family
life you understand that the
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revelators were telling us that
this is.
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The way it works.
You get the sense that every
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evolutionary.
World that's out there abides by
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eventually they get to where
they.
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Learn that family and fidelity.
Is the best possible.
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Environment for raising
children.
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Who grew up to be loyal,
trustworthy and ethical.
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If you look at children today
and you look at the divorce rate
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and the broken families, you
understand that.
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It is.
Because marriage and family are
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on, on, on.
Trial that we.
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Have so much unsettledness in
our societies.
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Particularly Western societies.
Faith.
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In in core moral principles and
service to a personal deity
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produces strong character and
stable leadership.
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The revelators tell us, tell us
this.
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Christianity tells us this.
Moral behavior is the.
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Foundation of a stable.
Society.
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That's what the Urantia book
teaches.
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It lessens almost every.
Social I'll that is destructive
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to the social order.
And people are happier.
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And more productive.
I just saw a.
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Report today.
Maybe it was Jordan Peterson.
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Somebody had said that.
If you look at all the societies
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that are best.
Based on Christian principles,
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they more often.
Do better, there's less.
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Poverty.
There's less sickness than in
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non Christian countries.
Forgiveness is.
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The basis of the Golden Rule,
The Urantia.
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Book teaches and this is
compatible with Christianity in
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fact.
It's the bedrock of of Jesus's
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teachings, the golden.
Rule the most important tenet in
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Christian thought.
You do not have to be a
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Christian in order to reap the
benefits of a.
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Christian LED social order.
And that includes pluralism.
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Because people express their.
Religions differently, even I as
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a urantia.
Book reader should be allowed.
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To express my my faith in the
Urantia book and the and the
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teachings and I am for the most
part in this society that would
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not be true if I went to.
Saudi Arabia or Qatar?
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Or or even China if I had the
Urantia book and they knew what?
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It was.
I'd be.
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I'd either be kicked out or I'd
be.
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Imprisoned Christianity promotes
the the honoring of parents and
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elders, a principle which
ensures wisdom of experience
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from and it passes it on from
generation to generation that
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those are Christian principles
and those are Urantian principle
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principles.
The 10 commandments come from
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spiritual enlightenment and only
in a moral.
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Society would reject.
Them and that's why we're seeing
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the pushback.
Today and for all these.
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Reasons and any and many more.
Many, many of the tenets of
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Western civilization are rooted
in four great influences.
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The Hebrew faith Greek.
Philosophy rooted in morality,
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being a good citizen, Roman law.
Which provides order.
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Christian Teachings.
Which leads to service.
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And declares the dignity of the
human spirit in the modern age
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and after almost 5000 years of
evolutionary growth, it becomes
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apparent that.
Society that serves.
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In the interest.
Of the people.
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The most effectively are rooted
in Christian thought.
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The lesson here is if you want.
To have the best possible.
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Society adopting Christian
principles.
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Offers you the.
Best chance of success?
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It's not even a matter of faith,
it's a matter of evidence.
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A simple observation is made
that societies.
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That are the least.
Christian suffer the most
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problems and then you ask well.
Why is why is the West?
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Going through looks like birth
pangs right now.
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Why is the West crumbling?
Well, it's because our culture
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is.
Becoming less Christian and more
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materialistic.
Less people identify.
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As being Christian in western
society that at any time in the
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last 300 years.
Suicide levels are up.
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Every developed country if you
look at them now.
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Has the highest level of suicide
ever.
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I also want to make the
connective tissue between the
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Urantia book and Christianity
because of.
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All of the world.
Religions.
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The one that the Urantia book
refers to the most and runs
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parallel 2.
And traces its roots back
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through.
The New and the Old Testament.
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So just as Christ was the.
Revelation that spawned the
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Christian teachings If if the
Urantia book is claiming to be
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an epical revelation, it is
connecting itself.
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To the.
Previous revelations, that being
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Christ, that being.
Melchizedek, who taught Abraham,
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the father of the Hebrew faith
or the Jewish faith, back to
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the.
Days of Adam and Eve, which
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itself finds it.
It's story.
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Woven into the Old and New
Testament and is referred.
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To by the prophets.
Going back even before that to
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the days of Dalmatia and the
beginnings of civilization, way
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back when, when there were
giants in those days.
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Again, a reference in the Bible
that connects itself.
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To the first epical.
Revelation, which was the
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arrival of the 100.
I always like to remind myself
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that ask the average person,
where did the name Lake Van come
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from?
Go on, look, look at it on
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Chachi PT, there's the
connective tissue.
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So the Urantia book, in my
opinion, was made.
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For people who are rooted in.
Christian thought, just like the
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New Testament, connected.
Itself to the old.
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Testament as a continuation of
the revelatory story, and so
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here.
We are and so.
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I think that because.
Of that we will see that.
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Eventually, Christians will pick
up the Urantia book and they'll.
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Understand that this is.
This is how.
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Christianity can.
Thrive because of all.
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The things that we've talked
about in this episode, and I
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hope I haven't said too much,
it's not my intention to say too
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much.
They say you.
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Should leave the audience
wanting more.
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So let's, let's hope.
I can achieve that.
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Maybe I'll achieve.
It with really.
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Good music from David Dinger.
It's a good start.
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I hope you've enjoyed this
episode.
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I know we've.
Covered a lot.
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And we'll talk about my Halbert.
If you want to hear the
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interview, it's up on your
Rancher radio.
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Dot org.
Just looking for the live stream
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on the menu bar and playing a
bunch of old interviews and
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you'll hear the conversation
that I had with Halbert about a
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very interesting thing that
took.
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Place at a high.
School recently in.
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Chicago.
So we'll see.
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You on the next edition of the
Urantia Radio Podcast.
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OK, so it's time for another
edition of the Rancho Radio.
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Podcast.
And I am your host.
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Jim Watkins is my name.
Long time reader since 1982.
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I even wrote it on my book on
the inside flap the day I
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started reading the book.
And that was a long, long time
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ago.
And it's good to be here and I
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want to share.
A lot with you today.
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I've been writing a lot of
notes.
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I haven't been keeping my normal
regiment because life gets
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complicated and we're all so
busy trying to keep.
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Up right.
And that's me too.
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And I.
Apologize because I I.
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So long to have that time with
you to.
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Talk about the fifth epical.
Revelation So many things that
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go through my mind about so
much.
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Just a couple of things that.
We will talk about today the 10.
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Things I I started to think.
About how could.
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The Urantia book Change the
World.
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That thought often comes into my
mind.
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Maybe you too when you're
reading a a passage.
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That light goes.
Off in your head and you say, my
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God, if, if everybody could
experience the feeling of
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knowing what I've just learned,
how much of a difference would
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that make in the world?
And there's so many things wrong
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in the.
World I I just.
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Had a conversation with my son
and he's in his mid 20s and he's
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perplexed by how much evil is in
the world.
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I'm not sure if it's always been
this bad, I think we just see it
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more.
Easily, because everybody is.
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On their smartphones, we're
getting to hear what other
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people are thinking all of the
time.
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That has to be.
Part of the problem.
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It's too much information.
I saw a.
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Woman, she recorded herself and
she's.
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Got a little baby?
She's holding the baby and she
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says, you know, the best thing
you can do right now is get rid
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of your smartphone, go back to
the landline and spend time with
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your kids and don't get.
Distracted by.
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Everything else that's going on
in the world, I sometimes think
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that's probably.
Good advice, so we'll talk
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about. 10 year Rancho book
concepts in a little bit.
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Also I want to talk about
Christianity.
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I think a lot about
Christianity, and you and I
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have.
Talked about.
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The role of Christianity in the
world and I have some insights I
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want to share with you about.
That before we take our break to
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pay the bills, as they say.
I want to direct you back.
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Over to the Urantia radio.org
website, urantiaradio.org.
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It's getting, it's getting more
and more where I want it to be
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my.
Podcaster archive.
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There it also has a.
Description so that you can kind
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of thumb through and you can.
See looking backwards what?
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Some of the.
Other podcasts were about.
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There's also an icon where you
can leave a message, not write a
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message.
But actually.
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Speak into your phone and tell
me what's on your mind, if
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you've got a book question or if
you've.
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Got a thought?
Or or even if you just want to
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say.
Howdy, it's so easy.
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Just go to yourrancherradio.org.
And look.
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For the little blue.
Ribbon on the side and it says
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record a message.
And you just hit it and you
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start recording.
And if you don't want me to use
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the message, then leave that
message too, and I won't hear
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it.
And also on the tail end of this
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episode, I want to talk a little
bit about my interview with
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Halbert Katzen, which you can
hear on the urantiaradio.org.
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Website just looking for the.
Live stream icon and that will.
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Take you to.
My new live stream.
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That I just set.
Up and and what that live stream
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is, it's kind of cool that you
can listen to Urantia music, you
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can listen to all the music.
That we feature.
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Here with David Dinger, you can
listen to past interviews.
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That go back 5.
Years, in fact, my first
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interview with Larry Mullen.
Is is.
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On the live stream, I'm going to
keep it.
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Up there for a couple weeks.
So I know a lot of plug Ola
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going on there, but.
Let's take a quick break.
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And we'll come back and we'll
talk about the 10 things the
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Urantia book says that I believe
will completely change the world
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when we continue on the Urantia
Radio.
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Podcast.
Welcome back to the Rancho Radio
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Podcast.
I just wanted to give you kind
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of a moment to decompress.
I I gave.
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It some thought and I want to
share some of my.
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Ideas with you about we we do.
Spend a lot of time reading the
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book and and in this episode we
we won't be reading any.
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Papers, but we will talk about
the.
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Book and its impact on on.
The world at.
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Large and obviously it is a
revelation.
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It it compares itself on the
same level as Melchizedek, even
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the revelation of Jesus Christ
when he presented.
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The Father to us.
In human form.
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And now here we are, 2000 years.
Later with a book that.
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Proclaims itself an epical
revelation and so in order to
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put itself in that position of
importance, I think it's.
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Important for us to look at.
What the Urantia book says in
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totality in a summary form, and
then extrapolate from that what
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that knowledge would do and what
it means for the world.
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And so at the very.
Top of the list here are the. 10
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Urantia book concepts.
I believe if they were widely.
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Understood and embraced could
realistically change the
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direction of of human.
Society for the better.
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Along with examples.
Of how they could.
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Work in.
Practice.
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So at the very top of the list,
the.
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Idea of a universal.
Fatherhood of God the.
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Teaching is that all humans are
children of one God, no
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exceptions.
Now think of the impact if that
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was embraced.
Number one, it would end racial,
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national and religious
superiority claims #2 it would
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create a sense of true global
family and as an example,
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government schools.
Religious groups could focus on
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building unity rather than
dividing along identity lines.
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That from the one singular truth
and the embracement of the
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truth, if we could get to that
point.
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Where we could actually say, as
Jesus taught over it was the
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core.
Principle of his of his teaching
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it was the reason he came here
was to introduce.
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Us to his father, that as the
eldest.
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Son, think about that, the
universality.
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Of the fatherhood of God.
Now I know that the Christianity
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teaches the Father in heaven,
but somehow it it has managed
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to.
Be perceived as a.
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Western religion I don't see any
other faith saying that the.
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Father is the fatherhood of all
people.
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Even people who don't believe in
the.
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Fatherhood of God, He is still
their Father.
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And it's.
Because of that equal.
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Disbursement of His grace that
we can all say we're brothers
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and sisters in the spiritual
sense and that leads to the next
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concept that the.
Urantia book teaches.
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That, if embraced, could change
the spiritual tone of this world
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#2 the brotherhood and
sisterhood of man.
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Every human being is spiritually
equal and equally loved.
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And think of the impact if if
that concept was embraced.
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It would end prejudice, bigotry,
discrimination.
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It would lose all of these
things, would lose their moral
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legitimacy.
The idea of us.
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Being a brotherhood and a
sisterhood of man, mankind, the
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human, it fosters empathy across
cultural and political.
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Divides, as Jesus taught.
All men are your.
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Brothers love them as you love
yourself.
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And think about all the
conflicts that might be solved
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with immigration and foreign
policy and humanitarianism and
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and they would be guided by a
moral kinship rather than
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complete self-interest.
But.
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It starts with the seed of the
idea of of the.
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Brotherhood and sisterhood,
concept of a universal religion.
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That is.
Based on the.
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Fatherhood of God.
And then here's #3 which is a
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big one.
The thought adjuster.
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If if human beings were
cognizant of the fact.
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That they were in.
Possession of the Spirit,
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fragment of the Father in their
minds.
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A literal.
Fragment of God indwelling every
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normal human being.
Regardless of their.
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Race, their creed, their gender,
it doesn't matter.
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But think of the.
The effect it would have.
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If everyone felt dignified in
knowing that they had the
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fragment of the living Father
within the citadel of their
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mind, every person would see
themselves.
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As a sacred part of God.
Each would have eternal meaning.
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We would understand that it is
that fragment that survives and.
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Carries us forward.
Justice systems focused on
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rehabilitation and potential
rather than only punishment.
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You know, because our current
justice system, and it may be
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somewhat partially true, maybe
not, but mostly we think that of
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serious offenders as being
irredeemable, but.
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I've heard stories I've.
Got friends who?
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Collect stories of.
Redemption, and it's there and
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that redemption, where does it
come from?
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It comes from the notion of a
human being connecting with God
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and turning their life over to
Him and how it changes people
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once they connect with that
spirit fragment number.
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Four.
What else?
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Could the.
Urantia Book.
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Teach the World.
How about the eternal?
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Life as the true goal, the.
Teaching of mortal life being
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but the first stage of an
eternal spiritual career.
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Now the Urantia.
Book does teach us.
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That the day-to-day living is
very important and we are not to
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forsake.
That we have a duty to live
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this.
Part of our immortal life, our
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existence as good citizens,
faithful servants, indeed as
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brothers in a spiritual Kingdom.
But to teach that this is only
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one segment of a longer period
of time that stretches into the
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future.
Will there be less?
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Apprehension and fear and
anxiety about death.
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I mean, you think you know, say
people.
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Say that they.
Invented religion because.
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Well, because people are afraid.
Of dying well.
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Absolutely they're afraid of
we're all.
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Afraid of dying?
We're all afraid of our
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mortality.
Who wouldn't be if if animals
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knew that they were going to
die?
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They'd be a little upset about
that.
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They don't know that, they don't
conceive you of death in the way
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that we do, but it's that
conception of the potential for
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there not to be.
Death that.
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Distinguishes us from our animal
cousins because we know that
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this is going to end and we
think, well then what's next?
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Nothing.
That's what secularism teaches
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and that's where the moral panic
starts to arise and emerge.
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People living for long term soul
growth rather than short term
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materialism would have a
transformative effect on a human
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being the the the normal and
average.
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Pitfalls of everyday.
Life would be lessened.
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The burden of that lessened
knowing that everything that in
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your life has intrinsic value
and meaning.
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How much?
Does that elevate your?
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Purpose in life and man, let me
tell you what the, the anxiety,
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that mental illness, the all of
the different afflictions where,
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where's that message going to
come from #5 the religion of
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personal spiritual experience.
True religion is a personal
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connection with God.
It is not a religious adherence
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to creeds or institutions.
It is those things.
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It is.
Those characteristics of.
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Evolutionary religion that drive
modern man away from God, not
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to.
God that they have to follow.
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A certain amount of rules or.
That they have to.
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Pray so many times a day or that
they have to do something on one
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day but not do it on the.
No, God is an is a 24/7
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operation.
But what that means is that that
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that personal.
Religious experience is the.
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Only requirement.
To live a religious.
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Life and that transformative
effect would make people
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naturally want to be better
people, number six.
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Jesus has the.
Revelation of God's character
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teaching so much of the the
gospel, so much of the New
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Testament is based on the
resurrection of Christ, and we
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shouldn't downplay or undermine
the importance of that.
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But that's not why he.
Lived.
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He lived to show us the.
Revelation of God's character.
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He who has seen me has seen the
Father.
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Christ is the highest.
Representative of the Eternal
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Father of any personality.
He revealed God's.
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Love in his life.
It it was literally.
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As God was on earth.
I hear a lot of people say.
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One comes from Alice.
Cooper of all people.
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He says when you really figure
out, when you come to that point
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in your life, when you really.
Realize who Jesus was.
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That's when it changes.
Your life faith.
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Becomes a new way of life.
It's not just merely a.
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Password or a ticket?
To heaven when you get to.
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The pearly Gates.
They don't ask.
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You your password, but they if
they do.
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You might just mention Jesus.
Just just say it.
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It might be a universal.
Password but.
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They're not going to ask you
that.
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They'll know it already.
He'll know it already.
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The other thing that the
revelation of the life.
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Of Jesus, which the.
Urantia Book presents in 700.
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Pages is that faith becomes a
way of life.
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It is just the the.
The rule of conduct, ethics,
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mercy and service become central
and also natural.
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It becomes natural through the
habit of doing.
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Good example of.
This is the church.
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Prioritizes feeding the hungry,
sheltering the homeless, and
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mentoring the lonely over
building wealth so those become
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the important things in a
community doing good the.
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Best way to serve the will of
God is to do good. #7 is the
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integration of science,
philosophy and religion, which
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comprises the Urantia book.
The Urantia book shows that
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science, philosophy and
religion.
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Are are all three?
Aspects of the same.
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Core reality.
Mind, matter, spirit.
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And so forth.
And it also ends the divide.
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The Urantia book would end the
divide between faith and
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science.
It.
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It says that technology is good
with moral vision, environmental
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and AI ethics.
Could be guided by both
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scientific data.
And spiritual values.
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Another thing that the Arantia
book and I put it on my list is
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number 8 is progressive
civilization, Civilizations
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naturally.
Evolved toward peace, justice.
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And global unity is citizens
grow morally.
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That is, that is.
The thing that seems to be
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missing?
Everybody's wondering.
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How are we headed?
For the future, what kind of
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world are we going to be?
What?
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What are people?
Going to be like 100 years from
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now, 1000 year.
Well, we won't be here, not in
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the way that we can imagine
today, unless we grow morally.
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The Urantia book more than once
says Destruction, Survival.
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It's your choice.
On an individual level and on a
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group level, there's nothing
that says that they can't start
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over.
With this.
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But if it happens that way.
It's not going to be God causing
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a flood, it's going to be us
making bad decisions, doing
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things like going to war with
nuclear weapons or trashing up
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the entire planet with plastics
and, and, and in that regard
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becoming less materialistic.
Would be a good.
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Thing #9 service we we need to
somehow transition from purely
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profit.
To service the.
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Wantingness.
The desire.
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To serve others.
That is the highest.
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Human duty.
That is what the Urantia book
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teaches.
People say, well, what?
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Does it teach?
Well, it teaches that service.
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Is the highest human.
Duty service is the the true.
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Path to greatness.
Selfishness.
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Is the root of decay.
And if.
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We were to take.
In this revelation reverses the
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glorification of greed,
strengthens communities, and
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creates an environment of social
honor and reward systems.
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Celebrate acts of service.
As much as wealth or fame, it's
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it's interesting in the paper on
what government is like on
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another planet it.
It talks about the idea that
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their society upholds.
Loyalty its citizens reward.
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Loyalty.
They see that as people that are
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loyal.
Servants to the government.
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Or representatives for their.
State or national government,
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they don't get.
Away with.
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Some of the stuff.
We see.
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Are you?
See all the infighting going on
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politically.
They're they're, they're seeking
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political power.
And that is their.
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Their desire.
But that's not the way a society
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can't.
Be that way.
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Ultimately for the.
Good of the people we have to
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have.
Representatives and people.
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That get elected that.
Do so with honor and integrity.
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And then finally, I think
probably the greatest
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pronouncement that the Urantia
book makes is cosmic
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citizenship.
Now I only speak from my own
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experience, but when I was
younger reading the Urantia book
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the.
The.
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Idea of there being cosmic of
being a a resident of a universe
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as opposed to a small planet.
Was it an enormous jump for me
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in in understanding the cosmos I
I no longer lived on an island.
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I was now a citizen of the
spiritual Kingdom, and as a
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citizen and and as a an.
Ambassador, it is up.
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For me or you?
Or others who adopt.
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That citizenship that we.
Hold ourselves to a higher
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standard, we hold ourselves to a
higher power, and we.
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Recognize that we are being
judged.
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By how we behave.
Especially when you're given
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the.
Truth to he Who.
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Has been given much much as.
Expected.
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So we should probably just take
a little bit of a break, just a
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little.
Bit of a music interlude again,
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and then I'll come back and I
want to talk a little bit about
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my interview with Howard Katzen,
which you can listen to on the
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stream live icon on
urantiaradio.org.
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And we'll get to that a little.
Bit because I have some thoughts
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about that and then also.
Let's talk about let's.
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Talk about compatibility of
Christianity based on the
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teachings of the Urantia book.
O hang on just for a few
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seconds.
We'll be right back.
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I wanted to talk about and I
will talk about it maybe in the
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next episode about the 10
commandments.
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I've been doing some thinking
about the 10 commandments and I
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wanted.
To trace back.
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Where they came from and what I
came up with based on the
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Urantia book I believe and
somebody please correct me.
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Go to yourranchoradio.org or
e-mail me at
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urantiabookradio@gmail.com.
I believe that the that.
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What were the Dalmatian
commandments which later became
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the Supreme commandments?
Of of the 1st.
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Garden and the second garden
with Adam and Eve.
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And then we had.
The the School of.
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Melchizedek and what he.
Taught his disciples.
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And they were sort of more or
less like the commandments, but
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they have all a running theme.
And then of course, what we're
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left with today in the modern
age is this 10 commandments from
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Moses going back to Exodus
receiving these commandments.
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It's a great story.
It's a great story and it's a
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story.
That unfortunately, the world
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does not know about and in the
next.
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Episode.
I'll spend a little bit of time
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on it.
I think that they.
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Can be traced back.
To the Veranda Deck Suns and
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I'll just leave it there, OK,
because I don't want to spoil
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it.
Another thought that had
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occurred to me because.
You've if you've.
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Listened to these podcasts, you
know that I consider myself a
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new Christian and I don't know,
maybe I, I identified, explained
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what that means, but to me, a
new Christian.
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Who is it?
Halverson, Chris Halverson, who
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is in in the study groups and a
huge longtime reader and
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influencer in the Urantia
movement.
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One quote I heard.
Him say is that?
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People have a tendency to pour
new wine into old wineskins,
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meaning we take revelation and
we immediately try to make it.
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Adapt to our.
Previous conceptions.
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Of what?
Our religious.
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Faith is, and I've done that
with the Urantia book.
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I I grew up a Christian.
My mom occasionally would make
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us go to school, I mean go to
church, and we had a good time
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and all that.
And I learned enough so that
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later in life, when I was
searching for meaning and value,
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it was natural for me to draw
upon the well of my Christian
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upbringing and when the Urantia
book was introduced into my
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life.
I was able to because of the
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soil.
Of Christianity, the seeds of
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the Urantia.
Book were able to sprout rather
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quickly, but.
The the thing that makes that
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important, which I'll.
Address is that.
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Christianity versus other worlds
religions or or.
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Creeds is.
Not all that compatible.
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For example, Islam is not really
compatible with Christianity.
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It has some similarities and,
but they're not.
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If you ask it typically, it'd be
rare for.
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You to find someone who is
deeply Islamic to ever switch to
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Christianity.
Unless, of course, Christ came
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into his heart and there was
some circumstance I could see.
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That.
Communism is not compatible with
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Christianity in many.
Ways the LGBTQ.
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Agenda is not compatible with
Christianity, especially since
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they've.
Decided to strike a.
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War against traditional family
which is compatible with
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Christianity?
Christianity is more compatible.
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With the Jewish faith, except
for.
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The personality of Christ and
his divinity.
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Globalism is not even compatible
with Christianity, although you
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would think in extrapolating
some of the truths from the
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Urantia book that it might be.
But it really isn't, because
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globalism lends itself to
centralized power and
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centralized power unless it's
the most highs of Edentia or if
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it's a planetary Prince.
Or Jesus himself, globalism.
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Will not work if it's managed by
men, of that I am convinced,
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even though that might not.
Be 1000.
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Years from now.
Maybe if we.
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Become more morally fragrant.
It's possible, but for right
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now, the way globalism is set
up, it's more about control and
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power.
Than it is about love of God or
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the the spiritual truths.
So what's compatible with?
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Christianity.
Well, I already mentioned one
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strong family.
Is the bedrock of a truly
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advanced society.
If you read the.
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Papers on marriage and family
life you understand that the
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revelators were telling us that
this is.
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The way it works.
You get the sense that every
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evolutionary.
World that's out there abides by
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eventually they get to where
they.
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Learn that family and fidelity.
Is the best possible.
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Environment for raising
children.
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Who grew up to be loyal,
trustworthy and ethical.
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If you look at children today
and you look at the divorce rate
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and the broken families, you
understand that.
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It is.
Because marriage and family are
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on, on, on.
Trial that we.
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Have so much unsettledness in
our societies.
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Particularly Western societies.
Faith.
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In in core moral principles and
service to a personal deity
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produces strong character and
stable leadership.
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The revelators tell us, tell us
this.
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Christianity tells us this.
Moral behavior is the.
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Foundation of a stable.
Society.
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That's what the Urantia book
teaches.
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It lessens almost every.
Social I'll that is destructive
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to the social order.
And people are happier.
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And more productive.
I just saw a.
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Report today.
Maybe it was Jordan Peterson.
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Somebody had said that.
If you look at all the societies
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that are best.
Based on Christian principles,
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they more often.
Do better, there's less.
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Poverty.
There's less sickness than in
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non Christian countries.
Forgiveness is.
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The basis of the Golden Rule,
The Urantia.
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Book teaches and this is
compatible with Christianity in
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fact.
It's the bedrock of of Jesus's
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teachings, the golden.
Rule the most important tenet in
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Christian thought.
You do not have to be a
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Christian in order to reap the
benefits of a.
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Christian LED social order.
And that includes pluralism.
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Because people express their.
Religions differently, even I as
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a urantia.
Book reader should be allowed.
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To express my my faith in the
Urantia book and the and the
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teachings and I am for the most
part in this society that would
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not be true if I went to.
Saudi Arabia or Qatar?
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Or or even China if I had the
Urantia book and they knew what?
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It was.
I'd be.
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I'd either be kicked out or I'd
be.
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Imprisoned Christianity promotes
the the honoring of parents and
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elders, a principle which
ensures wisdom of experience
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from and it passes it on from
generation to generation that
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those are Christian principles
and those are Urantian principle
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principles.
The 10 commandments come from
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spiritual enlightenment and only
in a moral.
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Society would reject.
Them and that's why we're seeing
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the pushback.
Today and for all these.
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Reasons and any and many more.
Many, many of the tenets of
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Western civilization are rooted
in four great influences.
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The Hebrew faith Greek.
Philosophy rooted in morality,
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being a good citizen, Roman law.
Which provides order.
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Christian Teachings.
Which leads to service.
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And declares the dignity of the
human spirit in the modern age
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and after almost 5000 years of
evolutionary growth, it becomes
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apparent that.
Society that serves.
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In the interest.
Of the people.
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The most effectively are rooted
in Christian thought.
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The lesson here is if you want.
To have the best possible.
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Society adopting Christian
principles.
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Offers you the.
Best chance of success?
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It's not even a matter of faith,
it's a matter of evidence.
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A simple observation is made
that societies.
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That are the least.
Christian suffer the most
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problems and then you ask well.
Why is why is the West?
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Going through looks like birth
pangs right now.
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Why is the West crumbling?
Well, it's because our culture
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is.
Becoming less Christian and more
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materialistic.
Less people identify.
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As being Christian in western
society that at any time in the
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last 300 years.
Suicide levels are up.
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Every developed country if you
look at them now.
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Has the highest level of suicide
ever.
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I also want to make the
connective tissue between the
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Urantia book and Christianity
because of.
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All of the world.
Religions.
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The one that the Urantia book
refers to the most and runs
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parallel 2.
And traces its roots back
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through.
The New and the Old Testament.
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So just as Christ was the.
Revelation that spawned the
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Christian teachings If if the
Urantia book is claiming to be
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an epical revelation, it is
connecting itself.
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To the.
Previous revelations, that being
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Christ, that being.
Melchizedek, who taught Abraham,
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the father of the Hebrew faith
or the Jewish faith, back to
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the.
Days of Adam and Eve, which
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itself finds it.
It's story.
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Woven into the Old and New
Testament and is referred.
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To by the prophets.
Going back even before that to
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the days of Dalmatia and the
beginnings of civilization, way
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back when, when there were
giants in those days.
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Again, a reference in the Bible
that connects itself.
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To the first epical.
Revelation, which was the
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arrival of the 100.
I always like to remind myself
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that ask the average person,
where did the name Lake Van come
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from?
Go on, look, look at it on
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Chachi PT, there's the
connective tissue.
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So the Urantia book, in my
opinion, was made.
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For people who are rooted in.
Christian thought, just like the
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New Testament, connected.
Itself to the old.
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Testament as a continuation of
the revelatory story, and so
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here.
We are and so.
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I think that because.
Of that we will see that.
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Eventually, Christians will pick
up the Urantia book and they'll.
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Understand that this is.
This is how.
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Christianity can.
Thrive because of all.
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The things that we've talked
about in this episode, and I
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hope I haven't said too much,
it's not my intention to say too
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much.
They say you.
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Should leave the audience
wanting more.
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So let's, let's hope.
I can achieve that.
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Maybe I'll achieve.
It with really.
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Good music from David Dinger.
It's a good start.
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I hope you've enjoyed this
episode.
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I know we've.
Covered a lot.
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And we'll talk about my Halbert.
If you want to hear the
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interview, it's up on your
Rancher radio.
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Dot org.
Just looking for the live stream
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on the menu bar and playing a
bunch of old interviews and
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you'll hear the conversation
that I had with Halbert about a
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very interesting thing that
took.
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Place at a high.
School recently in.
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Chicago.
So we'll see.
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You on the next edition of the
Urantia Radio Podcast.
