Dec. 6, 2024
An Argument for Christ
Examining Paper 195, we look at the revelators warning about the crisis of secularism and materialism on mondern society and how the teachings of Jesus are the only way to save society from collapse.
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OK, I want to thank you for
joining me and allowing me to
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make this presentation to you.
Paper 195 has been one of my.
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Favorite ever?
Since I started reading.
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The book because it's really
the.
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One part of the book.
Where they they predictably talk
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about what?
We're going through right now.
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It's very important.
And I want to start off by this
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quote which is from Paper 50. 4.
And they define what?
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Liberty really is.
And they say.
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That liberty is a.
Self destroying technique of
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cosmic existence when its
motivation is unintelligent,
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unconditioned and uncontrolled.
True liberty is progressively
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related to reality.
And is.
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Ever regardful of social equity.
Cosmic fairness, universe,
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fraternity and divine
obligations.
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And I believe in the context of
what they're saying is humans
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are operating on a very limited.
Scope they.
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Have no idea that the universe
is filled with living populated
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planets and it's guided by
intelligent spiritual ministry.
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So to us, liberty is about free
speech.
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It's about human rights and all
these other things, but.
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True liberty.
Takes into account.
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Your.
Cosmic obligations and fairness
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and the fact.
That we are part of.
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God's universe and we are
supposed to be doing his will.
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Humanity can no longer remain
stable.
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And progressive.
And this is what I think the
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revelators are warning us.
About SO.
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We know that secularism.
Started about. 300 years ago and
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science began its pursuit of
unlocking the mysteries of the
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universe.
And what started out?
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As.
A protest against religious
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tyranny has morphed into a form
of cultural tyranny.
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Spiritual.
Realities are ignored.
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Materialism is the.
Ideology being celebrated by the
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West because of this I believe
that it has created.
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A stabilizing an unstable
influence because religion is no
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is no longer acting like a.
Break spiritual values.
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No longer guide human behavior.
Moral Relativism.
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Rules the day.
And the results of.
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All of this.
Embrace of materialism and
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secularism.
Is that we have a.
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Rise in crime, drug dependency,
commercialized human trafficking
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on a global scale, and the rise
of mental illness and war a
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deeply.
Material Ideology.
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That is completely void of moral
clarity, and that is.
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What plagues society today?
On a grand scale.
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All are direct results.
Of the new materialistic
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philosophy.
The UB talks about.
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In Paper 195, let us remember
that in Section 4.
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Five and.
Six on secularism, materialism
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and totalitarianism.
The.
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Revelators warn us of the
dangers.
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Of these ideologies which are
destructive.
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To human progress.
And they write a lasting social
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system without a morality.
Predicated on spiritual
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realities.
Can no more be maintained than
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could the solar system without
gravity.
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That's from Paper 195, section
9.
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They also.
Write in that same paragraph
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that.
Without God.
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This is only the beginning of
the.
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Dire Harvest.
Of materialism and secularism
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still more terrible destruction
is yet to come now the.
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Urantia book says that.
Secularism, Science, the
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Industrial.
Age has brought us a lot.
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Of beneficent gains, we've
eliminated a lot.
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Of diseases, our food.
Production.
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Our infrastructure.
The way that.
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We are more literate than we
were, say, 2-3 hundred years
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ago.
All of that is.
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Vastly improved, but religion
and.
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Spiritual Faith has.
Sort of taken aback seat and as
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a result of.
This loss of religious faith or.
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Confusion.
It's prompted scientific
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nihilism, the belief and
accidental causation that there
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is no universal plan.
Moral Relativism.
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That allows for the idea that
good.
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Is based on the immediate and
temporal needs.
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Without regard for.
Cosmic relationships or
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responsibilities, and today
materialistic emphasis is on
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things instead of knowledge and
personality growth and spiritual
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growth.
In.
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Fact, it writes from paper 111.
Any civilization is in jeopardy
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when 3.
Quarters of its youth.
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Enter upon materialistic
professions and devote
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themselves.
To the.
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Pursuit of sensory activities in
the outer world when we.
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Are obsessed.
With things instead of.
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Ideals.
Science has also adopted an
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antagonistic approach to.
Religious faith.
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And this has a destabilizing
effect on the human condition
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quote the violence swing from an
age of miracles to an age of
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machines has.
Proved altogether upsetting.
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To man, the pursuit of mere
knowledge without the attendant
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interpretation of wisdom and the
spiritual insight of religious
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experience eventually leads to
pessimism and human.
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Despair and.
Those are quotes from Paper 195,
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section 6A.
Little knowledge is indeed
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disconcerting.
I say I.
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Recall as.
The quote that comes after this.
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Paragraph Today's.
Scientists views natural law as
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inherent and automatic.
It was the same mistake that
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Lucifer made as well and his
proclamation, for example, The
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Big Bang is without.
A real purpose.
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It's really up to us to decide.
And it's us to speculate on the
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truth of creation.
But.
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What is truth?
That's a.
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Good question and the Urantia
book answers it from paper. 34.
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Section 6.
We're told contrary to secular
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perspectives.
Quote there truly.
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Exists within you a conspiracy
of?
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Spiritual powers whose exclusive
purpose is to.
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Affect your final deliverance
from material bondage and finite
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handicaps.
So it's saying that there is.
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A.
Thereafter.
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There is something next that
comes.
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This is not all there.
Is.
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And the.
Secular perspective is.
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You only live once and that's
it.
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The Urantia book.
Disputes that.
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And says no, you continue
living, but in order.
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To get.
Deliverance from material
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bondage that.
Requires spiritual.
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And living faith.
But what are the fruits of
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religious faith?
Well, number one, as we just
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discussed, salvation, escape
from material death and enduring
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values, enduring personality,
another aspect.
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Of the fruits of religious.
Faith increased wisdom and
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insight through prayer and
meditation and worship.
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The growth of the personality,
the.
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Enhanced relationship.
With God the Father.
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An even more meaningful and
close.
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Relationship.
With Christ, Michael and there's
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also the components of anxiety
and stress reduction.
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We have more than enough
scientific evidence that shows.
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That religious faith.
Is medicinal as well.
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As practical.
And then of course, there is the
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connection to the Supreme.
It's like.
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We're all connected with.
Each other.
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But are we connected to the
Supreme?
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What?
Are the.
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Solutions that the urantia.
Book revelators offer us.
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In dealing with materialism and
totalitarianism and secularism,
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Well, from Paper 96.
We read.
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The time is ripe to witness the
figurative resurrection of the
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human Jesus from his burial tomb
amidst the theological
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traditions and the religious
dogma of 19th centuries.
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In other words, it's time to.
Upgrade our religious software.
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What a transcendent service.
If through this.
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Revelation, the Son of Man.
Should be.
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Recovered from the tomb of
traditional theology and be
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presented as the.
Living Jesus to the Church.
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That bears his name and to all.
Other religions, so here
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they're.
Specifying what's in this.
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Book is.
Going to help you from paper 196
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Section 2.
Paragraph 3.
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The great mistake that has been
made.
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By those who have.
Studied the master.
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'S life.
Is that some have conceived him
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as entirely human.
While others have.
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Thought of him as only divine
throughout the entire
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experience.
He was.
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Truly both human and divine,
even.
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As he yet is.
It's a wonderful quote.
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It is indeed a pity.
That his followers failed to
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create a unified.
Religion which might have given
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proper recognition to both the
human and the divine natures of
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the Master, as they were
inseparably bound up in His
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earth life.
And so gloriously set.
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Forth in the original Gospel of
the Kingdom, indeed.
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The Social.
Readjustments, The economic
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transformations, the moral
rejuvenations.
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And the religious?
Revisions of Christian
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civilization.
Would be a.
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Drastic and revolutionary change
if the living religion of Jesus
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should suddenly supplant the
theologic religion about Jesus.
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That's a direct call.
To Western civilization, it says
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that everything could change.
Quickly, if we would adopt the.
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Living Religion.
Of Jesus.
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And what?
He taught.
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And the Arantia book gives.
His whole life, the.
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Life and teachings.
Of Jesus.
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So in our conclusionary summary,
what is?
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What is the meaning of all of
this?
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Well, the.
Revelation alerts us to the
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dangers of materialism in
society, which we can.
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Clearly.
See.
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They tell us a new.
Perspective of Jesus's.
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Teachings offers humanity the.
Surest path to.
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Restoring stability.
It says the tenets of Jesus's
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teachings are faith in God.
Is a valid truth.
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Materialism without religious.
Faith is destructive to society.
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And religious living as Jesus.
Taught.
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Provides incentive for putting
the Golden Rule into action,
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which benefits everyone.
I think those are pretty
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important statements and
proclamations.
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To follow.
Jesus means to personally share
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his.
Religious faith.
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And to enter into the.
Spirit of the Master.
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'S life of unselfish service for
man.
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One of the most important things
a human being is to find out.
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What Jesus believed to discover
his ideals.
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And to strive for the
achievement.
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Of his exalted life purpose.
Of all human knowledge.
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That which is of greatest value.
Is to know the.
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Religious life of Jesus.
And how?
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He lived it.
And that's from paper 190.
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Six section.
One paragraph.
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Three, Jesus said.
Regardless of.
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Who I am and what power I may or
may not wield, I have always
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been and always will.
Be subject to the will.
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Of my.
Paradise, Father.
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I think.
That's a pretty great.
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Way to end this presentation.
Could it really be?
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So simple.
So let's talk about.
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It thank you for listening to my
presentation.
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OK, I want to thank you for
joining me and allowing me to
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make this presentation to you.
Paper 195 has been one of my.
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Favorite ever?
Since I started reading.
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The book because it's really
the.
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One part of the book.
Where they they predictably talk
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about what?
We're going through right now.
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It's very important.
And I want to start off by this
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quote which is from Paper 50. 4.
And they define what?
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Liberty really is.
And they say.
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That liberty is a.
Self destroying technique of
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cosmic existence when its
motivation is unintelligent,
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unconditioned and uncontrolled.
True liberty is progressively
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related to reality.
And is.
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Ever regardful of social equity.
Cosmic fairness, universe,
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fraternity and divine
obligations.
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And I believe in the context of
what they're saying is humans
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are operating on a very limited.
Scope they.
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Have no idea that the universe
is filled with living populated
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planets and it's guided by
intelligent spiritual ministry.
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So to us, liberty is about free
speech.
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It's about human rights and all
these other things, but.
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True liberty.
Takes into account.
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Your.
Cosmic obligations and fairness
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and the fact.
That we are part of.
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God's universe and we are
supposed to be doing his will.
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Humanity can no longer remain
stable.
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And progressive.
And this is what I think the
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revelators are warning us.
About SO.
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We know that secularism.
Started about. 300 years ago and
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science began its pursuit of
unlocking the mysteries of the
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universe.
And what started out?
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As.
A protest against religious
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tyranny has morphed into a form
of cultural tyranny.
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Spiritual.
Realities are ignored.
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Materialism is the.
Ideology being celebrated by the
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West because of this I believe
that it has created.
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A stabilizing an unstable
influence because religion is no
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is no longer acting like a.
Break spiritual values.
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No longer guide human behavior.
Moral Relativism.
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Rules the day.
And the results of.
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All of this.
Embrace of materialism and
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secularism.
Is that we have a.
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Rise in crime, drug dependency,
commercialized human trafficking
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on a global scale, and the rise
of mental illness and war a
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deeply.
Material Ideology.
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That is completely void of moral
clarity, and that is.
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What plagues society today?
On a grand scale.
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All are direct results.
Of the new materialistic
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philosophy.
The UB talks about.
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In Paper 195, let us remember
that in Section 4.
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Five and.
Six on secularism, materialism
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and totalitarianism.
The.
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Revelators warn us of the
dangers.
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Of these ideologies which are
destructive.
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To human progress.
And they write a lasting social
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system without a morality.
Predicated on spiritual
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realities.
Can no more be maintained than
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could the solar system without
gravity.
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That's from Paper 195, section
9.
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They also.
Write in that same paragraph
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that.
Without God.
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This is only the beginning of
the.
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Dire Harvest.
Of materialism and secularism
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still more terrible destruction
is yet to come now the.
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Urantia book says that.
Secularism, Science, the
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Industrial.
Age has brought us a lot.
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Of beneficent gains, we've
eliminated a lot.
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Of diseases, our food.
Production.
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Our infrastructure.
The way that.
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We are more literate than we
were, say, 2-3 hundred years
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ago.
All of that is.
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Vastly improved, but religion
and.
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Spiritual Faith has.
Sort of taken aback seat and as
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a result of.
This loss of religious faith or.
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Confusion.
It's prompted scientific
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nihilism, the belief and
accidental causation that there
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is no universal plan.
Moral Relativism.
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That allows for the idea that
good.
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Is based on the immediate and
temporal needs.
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Without regard for.
Cosmic relationships or
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responsibilities, and today
materialistic emphasis is on
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things instead of knowledge and
personality growth and spiritual
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growth.
In.
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Fact, it writes from paper 111.
Any civilization is in jeopardy
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when 3.
Quarters of its youth.
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Enter upon materialistic
professions and devote
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themselves.
To the.
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Pursuit of sensory activities in
the outer world when we.
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Are obsessed.
With things instead of.
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Ideals.
Science has also adopted an
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antagonistic approach to.
Religious faith.
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And this has a destabilizing
effect on the human condition
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quote the violence swing from an
age of miracles to an age of
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machines has.
Proved altogether upsetting.
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To man, the pursuit of mere
knowledge without the attendant
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interpretation of wisdom and the
spiritual insight of religious
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experience eventually leads to
pessimism and human.
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Despair and.
Those are quotes from Paper 195,
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section 6A.
Little knowledge is indeed
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disconcerting.
I say I.
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Recall as.
The quote that comes after this.
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Paragraph Today's.
Scientists views natural law as
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inherent and automatic.
It was the same mistake that
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Lucifer made as well and his
proclamation, for example, The
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Big Bang is without.
A real purpose.
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It's really up to us to decide.
And it's us to speculate on the
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truth of creation.
But.
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What is truth?
That's a.
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Good question and the Urantia
book answers it from paper. 34.
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Section 6.
We're told contrary to secular
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perspectives.
Quote there truly.
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Exists within you a conspiracy
of?
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Spiritual powers whose exclusive
purpose is to.
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Affect your final deliverance
from material bondage and finite
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handicaps.
So it's saying that there is.
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A.
Thereafter.
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There is something next that
comes.
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This is not all there.
Is.
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And the.
Secular perspective is.
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You only live once and that's
it.
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The Urantia book.
Disputes that.
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And says no, you continue
living, but in order.
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To get.
Deliverance from material
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bondage that.
Requires spiritual.
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And living faith.
But what are the fruits of
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religious faith?
Well, number one, as we just
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discussed, salvation, escape
from material death and enduring
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values, enduring personality,
another aspect.
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Of the fruits of religious.
Faith increased wisdom and
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insight through prayer and
meditation and worship.
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The growth of the personality,
the.
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Enhanced relationship.
With God the Father.
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An even more meaningful and
close.
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Relationship.
With Christ, Michael and there's
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also the components of anxiety
and stress reduction.
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We have more than enough
scientific evidence that shows.
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That religious faith.
Is medicinal as well.
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As practical.
And then of course, there is the
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connection to the Supreme.
It's like.
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We're all connected with.
Each other.
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But are we connected to the
Supreme?
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What?
Are the.
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Solutions that the urantia.
Book revelators offer us.
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In dealing with materialism and
totalitarianism and secularism,
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Well, from Paper 96.
We read.
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The time is ripe to witness the
figurative resurrection of the
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human Jesus from his burial tomb
amidst the theological
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traditions and the religious
dogma of 19th centuries.
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In other words, it's time to.
Upgrade our religious software.
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What a transcendent service.
If through this.
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Revelation, the Son of Man.
Should be.
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Recovered from the tomb of
traditional theology and be
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presented as the.
Living Jesus to the Church.
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That bears his name and to all.
Other religions, so here
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they're.
Specifying what's in this.
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Book is.
Going to help you from paper 196
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Section 2.
Paragraph 3.
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The great mistake that has been
made.
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By those who have.
Studied the master.
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'S life.
Is that some have conceived him
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as entirely human.
While others have.
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Thought of him as only divine
throughout the entire
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experience.
He was.
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Truly both human and divine,
even.
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As he yet is.
It's a wonderful quote.
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It is indeed a pity.
That his followers failed to
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create a unified.
Religion which might have given
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proper recognition to both the
human and the divine natures of
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the Master, as they were
inseparably bound up in His
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earth life.
And so gloriously set.
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Forth in the original Gospel of
the Kingdom, indeed.
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The Social.
Readjustments, The economic
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transformations, the moral
rejuvenations.
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And the religious?
Revisions of Christian
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civilization.
Would be a.
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Drastic and revolutionary change
if the living religion of Jesus
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should suddenly supplant the
theologic religion about Jesus.
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That's a direct call.
To Western civilization, it says
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that everything could change.
Quickly, if we would adopt the.
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Living Religion.
Of Jesus.
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And what?
He taught.
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And the Arantia book gives.
His whole life, the.
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Life and teachings.
Of Jesus.
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So in our conclusionary summary,
what is?
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What is the meaning of all of
this?
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Well, the.
Revelation alerts us to the
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dangers of materialism in
society, which we can.
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Clearly.
See.
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They tell us a new.
Perspective of Jesus's.
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Teachings offers humanity the.
Surest path to.
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Restoring stability.
It says the tenets of Jesus's
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teachings are faith in God.
Is a valid truth.
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Materialism without religious.
Faith is destructive to society.
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And religious living as Jesus.
Taught.
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Provides incentive for putting
the Golden Rule into action,
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which benefits everyone.
I think those are pretty
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important statements and
proclamations.
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To follow.
Jesus means to personally share
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his.
Religious faith.
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And to enter into the.
Spirit of the Master.
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'S life of unselfish service for
man.
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One of the most important things
a human being is to find out.
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What Jesus believed to discover
his ideals.
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And to strive for the
achievement.
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Of his exalted life purpose.
Of all human knowledge.
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That which is of greatest value.
Is to know the.
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Religious life of Jesus.
And how?
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He lived it.
And that's from paper 190.
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Six section.
One paragraph.
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Three, Jesus said.
Regardless of.
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Who I am and what power I may or
may not wield, I have always
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been and always will.
Be subject to the will.
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Of my.
Paradise, Father.
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I think.
That's a pretty great.
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Way to end this presentation.
Could it really be?
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So simple.
So let's talk about.
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It thank you for listening to my
presentation.
