July 18, 2023
Christianity's Problem Part 3 of 3
In our three-part series looking at Paper 195 from the Urantia Book, we study section 9 entitled Christianity's Problem.
The Revelators tell us how Christianity can get back to its true purpose.
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Hey, welcome to The Ranch Radio
Podcast.
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I'm your host Jim Watkins and
this is part.
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Three of a three-part series.
So a conclusion.
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To our discussion.
About paper 195, in which we're
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talking about the.
Various ideologies that.
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Mankind is struggling with in
the modern day and some
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insights.
Provided to us by the
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revelators.
In the second.
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To last paper of the ranch.
Book.
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I know you'll enjoy it.
We've covered materialism.
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The Vulnerabilities of
Materialism, Secular
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Totalitarianism, which we
covered in the last podcast.
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And finally, we get to the final
chapter of Paper 195, and it's
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entitled Christianity's Problem.
And what could that be?
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We'll talk about that in just a
second here.
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Welcome back to another edition
of The Ranch Radio podcast.
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My name is Jim Watkins.
It's.
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Good to be.
Here I feel a sense of liberty.
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Today that I.
Haven't felt in a long time and
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I've been spending so much time
lately.
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Pondering the Paper 190.
Five series that.
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We've been doing and I've also
been reading some incredible
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writings from this gentleman
that I think I mentioned on the
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last podcast by the name of
Chuck Thurston.
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And Chuck is a long time your
Antic book reader and and you
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may have run across his
writings.
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I know that he does write for
various urantial organizations
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and publications but some of his
stuff is just pretty pretty
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profound.
And I do and we did connect and
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he is going to IC23, so he'll.
Be there.
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And I hope it's okay for me to
mention that.
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And then when he comes back,
we're going to have him come on
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and he and and much of his
writings that I've.
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Read has to do with.
The current times and the.
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The Callagastier role.
And some of the things that's
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going on and and and maybe some
of the things that are not have
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anything to do with the
rebellion.
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But have to do with just the way
that the Earth.
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The direction that the earth is
going into it and some of the
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reasons why.
But he.
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Also, and this is what's really
fascinating, and if you're a
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long time you're Angie book
reader, you know when you read.
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About the history.
Melchizedek and what he did with
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the covenant that he made with
Abraham, and then the subsequent
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history.
Chuck.
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Does a really good job at.
Breaking down what?
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How that period?
Ended up affecting.
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The bestowal of Michael and then
even today with.
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What we have?
And the thing that's interesting
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is we are in the possession of
an incredible revelation.
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An incredible revelation.
This is an epic revelation, and
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we are the.
Early adapters of this
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revelation.
So into our hands comes this.
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Great privilege, the.
Challenge is that we're in a
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world.
That isn't quite.
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Ready to hear?
Much of what?
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The Iran Book.
Has to say about a spiritual.
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Kingdom who inhabit who inhabits
it.
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What they do the history.
Of.
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Of the Trinity, the evolution of
the universe.
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All of these things are.
Are just really.
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Profound religious ideals, but
we live in an age that is not
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very religious.
Or at least.
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The people that are in charge
don't seem to be utilizing the
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strengths of religion, which is
what we've been talking about in
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Paper 195, which is entitled
after Pentecost.
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We went through materialism, We
went through the vulnerabilities
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of materialism.
And then in the last segment, I
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think it was Section 8, the
revelators went over the dangers
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of secular totalitarianism and
and all of.
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These are.
Warnings to from our.
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Revelators at the authors of
this book.
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And in this case, it's the
Midway Commission, and they're
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trying to tell us that in order.
For us to.
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Move in the right direction,
We're going to have to make some
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changes, and these changes are
necessary.
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Otherwise we're going to fall
victim to our own nihilistic,
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materialistic tendencies.
And so now we want to focus on
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Section 9.
And it is entitled in that same
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paper 190. 5 Christianity's.
Problem and and it's if you're a
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Christian you know it could it
could offend you.
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I don't think it will.
I'm a Christian and it doesn't
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offend me.
I mean I I've always considered
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myself a Christian in in or
Jesus Sonian or am I a follower
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of the master's teachings.
Absolutely.
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Do I think he's the son of God?
Absolutely so.
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Why wouldn't I qualify as a as a
Christian?
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Right.
So I I'm looking at this and
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saying okay, what can I do about
my own religion and make it
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more?
Attractive to other people
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because if we're going through a
spiritual abyss if.
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If they're trying to say, you
can't do that if you become an.
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Unspiritualized Society.
There's going to be all kinds of
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havoc and much of it you're
seeing today.
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What was?
The last line in the preceding.
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Paragraph.
The section on secular
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totalitarianism, the very last
line says, And this is only the
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beginning of the dire harvest of
materialism and secularism.
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Still more terrible destruction
is yet to come.
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And they also talk.
About how the first third of
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the. 20th century Your ancients
killed more human beings than
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were killed.
During the the.
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Whole of the.
Christian dispensation up to
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that time.
And now we're hearing about all
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these things that are going on
culturally.
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The crime, drug addiction.
We just saw sounds of freedom
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last weekend.
It's shocking to learn that
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there's more slavery, more human
slavery now than there was
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during the time of slavery
there.
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A lot of things were wrong, and
I don't mean to be a pessimist.
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But what the revelators are.
Telling us?
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And what they have been telling
us for 100 years.
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Is that a?
Society can no longer be held.
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Together without God.
Than a solar system without
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gravity And And what is God
anyway?
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God is an idea.
As we talked.
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About the Supreme Being, the
plan of the Supreme is is in
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motion and we are participating
in that.
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Process.
God's already got a project for
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us.
And too many people today have
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their own projects, and they're
going to have one short life to
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accomplish.
That if.
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They want to go on their own way
and go.
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Rogue but.
That's not the plan.
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And and so we all know that
God's will is.
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Service.
Serve others as you would like
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to be treated.
Treat people with respect.
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Love your neighbor.
Love your enemy.
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These are the basic truths that
teaches.
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That that Christ taught and they
are still relevant today.
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He still attracts people.
And yet despite.
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This the world hates.
Christianity many parts of the.
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World.
It is a death sentence.
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Why is that?
Well, let's take a look at that.
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In section 9 of paper 195, it
says do not overlook the value.
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Of your spiritual heritage, the
river of.
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Truth running down through the
centuries, even to the barren
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times of a materialistic and
secular.
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Age.
In all your worthy.
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Efforts to rid yourself of the
superstitious creeds of past
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ages.
Make sure that you.
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Hold.
Fast the eternal truths be, but
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be patient when the present
superstition revolt is over.
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There is there the truth of
Jesus.
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Gospel will persist gloriously.
To illuminate a new and better
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way, these present superstition
revolt.
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That's scientism asserting.
Over faith.
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That's what the ideological
struggle today.
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Is scientism which?
Is as we.
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Discussed in the earlier paper
on materialism is this notion
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that only the material is real
and everything else.
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Is relative.
The Urantia book writers affirm.
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That.
Reality is threefold.
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It is mind, it is matter, and it
is.
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Spirit.
Those are three parallels.
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Of the same and they constitute
total.
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Or the totality of reality?
Science doesn't.
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Allow for that.
Postulate, and that's why we're
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having the problems that we
have.
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Today, because it has.
Orphaned the human spirit.
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It's basically said.
The human spirit is not real.
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It is a psychological problem.
That can be treated, and that's
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from the secularist side.
Then you've got the other older
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religions.
That are antagonistic against.
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This particular.
Brand which is the religion of
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Jesus.
Love thy neighbor, love thyself.
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Worship thy God.
Have a personal relationship
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with the loving.
Father go about.
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Doing good.
That's God's will.
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Okay, so let me continue on.
But paganized and socialized
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Christianity stands in need of
new contact with the
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uncompromised teachings of
Jesus.
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It languishes for lack of a new
vision of the master's life on
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earth.
A new and fuller revelation of
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the religion of Jesus is
destined to conquer an empire of
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materialistic secularism and to.
Overthrow a world.
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Sway of mechanistic naturalism,
Urantia is now quivering on the
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very brink of one of its most
amazing and enthralling epics of
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social readjustment, moral
quickening and spiritual
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enlightenment.
The teachings of Jesus, even
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though greatly modified, survive
the mystery cults.
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Of their birth.
Time, the ignorance and the
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superstition of the Dark Ages,
and are even now slowly
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triumphing, triumphing over the
materialism, mechanism and
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secularism of the 20th century
and such times of great testing
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and threatened.
Defeat are always.
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Times of great Revelation.
Religion does not need, does
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need new leaders, spiritual men
and women.
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Who will dare?
To depend solely on Jesus and
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his incomparable teachings if
Christianity persists in
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neglecting its spiritual mission
while it continues to.
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Busy itself with social.
And material problems.
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The spiritual renaissance must
await the coming of these new
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teachers of Jesus's religion.
Who will be exclusively devoted?
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To the spiritual.
Regeneration of men and then
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will the Spirit born?
Souls quickly supply the
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leadership.
And inspiration requisite for
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the.
Social.
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Moral, Economic and Political
Reorganization of the world, the
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Modern.
Age will refuse to.
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Accept a religion which is
inconsistent with facts and out
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of harmony with the highest
conceptions of truth, beauty and
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goodness.
The hour is.
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Striking for A.
Rediscovery.
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Of the true and original
foundation, a present day
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distorted and compromised
Christianity, the real life and
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teachings.
Of Jesus primitive.
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Men and man lived a life of
superstitious bondage.
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To religious fear.
Modern civilized men dread.
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The thought of.
Falling under the dominance of
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strong religious convictions.
Thinking man has always.
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Feared, Feared to be held by.
A religion.
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When a strong and moving
religion threatens to dominate
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him, he invariably.
Tries to.
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Rationalize, traditionalize, and
institutionalize it, thereby
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hoping to gain control of it.
By such a procedure.
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Even a revealed religion becomes
man made and man dominated.
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Modern men and women of
intelligence evade the religion
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of Jesus.
Because of their fears.
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Of what it will do?
To them and with them and.
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All such fears are well founded.
The.
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Religion of Jesus does indeed
dominate and transform its.
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Believers.
Demanding that men dedicate
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their lives to seeking for a
knowledge.
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Of the will.
Of the Father in Heaven, and
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requiring that the energies of
living be consecrated to the
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unselfish service of the
brotherhood of man.
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Selfish men and women simply
will not pay such a.
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Price.
For even the.
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Greatest spiritual treasure.
Ever offered mortal man only
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when man has become sufficiently
disillusioned.
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By the.
Sorrowful disappointments
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attendant upon the foolish and
deceptive pursuits of
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selfishness, and subsequent to
the.
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Discovery of the.
Barrenness of formalized
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religion.
Will he be?
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Disposed to turn wholeheartedly.
To the gospel.
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Of the Kingdom.
The religion of Jesus of
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Nazareth.
The world needs more firsthand
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religion, even Christianity, The
best of the religions of the
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20th century, is not only a
religion about Jesus.
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But it is.
So largely one which men
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experience secondhand.
They take their.
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Religion wholly as handed down
by their accepted.
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Religious, religious teachers.
What an awakening the world
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would experience.
If it could only see.
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Jesus as he.
Really lived on earth and no
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first hand is life.
Giving teachings, descriptive
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words of things beautiful cannot
thrill.
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Like the sight.
Thereof, neither can creedal
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words inspire men's soul.
Like the experience?
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Of knowing the presence of God,
but expectant faith.
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Will ever keep the hope door?
Of man's soul open for the
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entrance of the eternal
spiritual realities.
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Of the divine values of the
world's beyond, and that is the
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difference really between the.
Secular world.
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Here and now point of view but
when we think about and this
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was.
Also discussed.
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In our previous section that.
These these revelators of light.
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Are saying you need to expand
your view of of reality.
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And it's not just what happens
in your, you know, 60-70 eighty
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years of life on earth.
There is something more, and
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what you do here determines the
fate.
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To a large degree of how you
progress if you.
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Progress on that eternal
journey.
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Now, it's not a litmus test, but
they're saying that the only way
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that we can get.
There so that we don't suffer
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under the.
Materialistic fetters of being
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finite creatures is through our
mind.
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Which is attached to the Spirit
of God.
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And it carries us to that next
threshold.
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And it.
Is a requirement that we and our
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will embrace that idea of
eternal values, the spiritual
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Kingdom, or whatever you want to
call it, heaven.
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The afterlife.
One man described it as an
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elevator, where you get in, get
off one floor and you get on
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another.
It's all kinds of ways to look
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at it, but the important thing
is the concept of the life
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everlasting and that this
universe is not.
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Just a haphazard.
Random causation event.
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There's a there's a plan going
on, there's something in action
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and we are a part.
Of that process.
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We'll we'll conclude with these
final words.
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Christianity has dared.
To lower its ideals before the.
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Challenge of human greed, war,
madness, and the lust for.
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Power but the.
Religion of Jesus stands as the
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unsullied and transcended
spiritual summons.
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Calling to the best there is in
man to rise.
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Above all these legacies of.
Animal evolution and by grace
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attain the moral heights of true
human destiny.
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Christianity.
Christianity is threatened by
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slow death from formalism over
organization, intellectualism,
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and other nonspiritual trends.
The modern Christian Church is
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not.
Such a brotherhood.
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Of dynamic.
Believers as.
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Jesus commissioned continuously.
To affect the spiritual.
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Transformation of successive
generations of mankind.
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So-called.
Christianity has become a social
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and cultural movement.
As well as a religious belief
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and.
Practice.
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The stream of modern
Christianity drains many an
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ancient Pagan swamp and many a
barbarian morass.
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Many old and cultural watersheds
drain into this presentday
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cultural stream as.
Well as the.
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High Galilean table lands.
Which are supposed it to be its
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exclusive source, I've said.
Before on on these podcasts that
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Christianity is very much like a
Christmas tree.
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The Christmas tree itself is a
symbol of many Pagan and
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religious events.
Or societies of the past?
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And there's a little bit of
everything a.
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Little bit of.
Of man's search.
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For religious truth.
In a Christmas tree, everything
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represents something.
Here's.
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What I'll say to you now in the
next section, which we'll save
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for the next episode we're going
to.
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Explore the future.
Section 10.
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It's the final section in paper
195, and it gives us a road map
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to the.
Future.
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And I know you're going to enjoy
it.
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I thank you for stopping by.
It's.
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Always a pleasure here.
It's always a pleasure and I do
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hope that you will share this
podcast I told you last.
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Time that.
We have surpassed the six.
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Figure Mark.
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Isn't that amazing?
That means that people's
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interest in the Ranch book is
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Forward to our next get together
the song called Avalon, which is
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Hey, welcome to The Ranch Radio
Podcast.
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I'm your host Jim Watkins and
this is part.
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Three of a three-part series.
So a conclusion.
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To our discussion.
About paper 195, in which we're
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talking about the.
Various ideologies that.
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Mankind is struggling with in
the modern day and some
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insights.
Provided to us by the
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revelators.
In the second.
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To last paper of the ranch.
Book.
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I know you'll enjoy it.
We've covered materialism.
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The Vulnerabilities of
Materialism, Secular
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Totalitarianism, which we
covered in the last podcast.
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And finally, we get to the final
chapter of Paper 195, and it's
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entitled Christianity's Problem.
And what could that be?
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We'll talk about that in just a
second here.
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I also want to thank you for
stopping by and if you ever have
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a comment or a question.
Or if there's a certain paper
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that you'd like us to to
address, perhaps?
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Feel free to e-mail us anytime
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At gmail.com and I promise.
Always to reply.
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Welcome back to another edition
of The Ranch Radio podcast.
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My name is Jim Watkins.
It's.
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Good to be.
Here I feel a sense of liberty.
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Today that I.
Haven't felt in a long time and
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I've been spending so much time
lately.
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Pondering the Paper 190.
Five series that.
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We've been doing and I've also
been reading some incredible
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writings from this gentleman
that I think I mentioned on the
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last podcast by the name of
Chuck Thurston.
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And Chuck is a long time your
Antic book reader and and you
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may have run across his
writings.
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I know that he does write for
various urantial organizations
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and publications but some of his
stuff is just pretty pretty
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profound.
And I do and we did connect and
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he is going to IC23, so he'll.
Be there.
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And I hope it's okay for me to
mention that.
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And then when he comes back,
we're going to have him come on
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and he and and much of his
writings that I've.
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Read has to do with.
The current times and the.
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The Callagastier role.
And some of the things that's
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going on and and and maybe some
of the things that are not have
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anything to do with the
rebellion.
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But have to do with just the way
that the Earth.
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The direction that the earth is
going into it and some of the
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reasons why.
But he.
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Also, and this is what's really
fascinating, and if you're a
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long time you're Angie book
reader, you know when you read.
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About the history.
Melchizedek and what he did with
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the covenant that he made with
Abraham, and then the subsequent
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history.
Chuck.
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Does a really good job at.
Breaking down what?
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How that period?
Ended up affecting.
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The bestowal of Michael and then
even today with.
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What we have?
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is we are in the possession of
an incredible revelation.
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An incredible revelation.
This is an epic revelation, and
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we are the.
Early adapters of this
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revelation.
So into our hands comes this.
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Great privilege, the.
Challenge is that we're in a
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world.
That isn't quite.
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Ready to hear?
Much of what?
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The Iran Book.
Has to say about a spiritual.
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Kingdom who inhabit who inhabits
it.
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What they do the history.
Of.
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Of the Trinity, the evolution of
the universe.
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All of these things are.
Are just really.
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Profound religious ideals, but
we live in an age that is not
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very religious.
Or at least.
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The people that are in charge
don't seem to be utilizing the
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strengths of religion, which is
what we've been talking about in
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Paper 195, which is entitled
after Pentecost.
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We went through materialism, We
went through the vulnerabilities
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of materialism.
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think it was Section 8, the
revelators went over the dangers
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of secular totalitarianism and
and all of.
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These are.
Warnings to from our.
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Revelators at the authors of
this book.
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And in this case, it's the
Midway Commission, and they're
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trying to tell us that in order.
For us to.
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Move in the right direction,
We're going to have to make some
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changes, and these changes are
necessary.
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Otherwise we're going to fall
victim to our own nihilistic,
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materialistic tendencies.
And so now we want to focus on
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Section 9.
And it is entitled in that same
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paper 190. 5 Christianity's.
Problem and and it's if you're a
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Christian you know it could it
could offend you.
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I don't think it will.
I'm a Christian and it doesn't
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offend me.
I mean I I've always considered
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myself a Christian in in or
Jesus Sonian or am I a follower
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of the master's teachings.
Absolutely.
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Do I think he's the son of God?
Absolutely so.
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Why wouldn't I qualify as a as a
Christian?
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Right.
So I I'm looking at this and
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saying okay, what can I do about
my own religion and make it
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more?
Attractive to other people
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because if we're going through a
spiritual abyss if.
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If they're trying to say, you
can't do that if you become an.
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Unspiritualized Society.
There's going to be all kinds of
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havoc and much of it you're
seeing today.
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What was?
The last line in the preceding.
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Paragraph.
The section on secular
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totalitarianism, the very last
line says, And this is only the
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beginning of the dire harvest of
materialism and secularism.
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Still more terrible destruction
is yet to come.
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And they also talk.
About how the first third of
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the. 20th century Your ancients
killed more human beings than
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were killed.
During the the.
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Whole of the.
Christian dispensation up to
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that time.
And now we're hearing about all
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these things that are going on
culturally.
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The crime, drug addiction.
We just saw sounds of freedom
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last weekend.
It's shocking to learn that
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there's more slavery, more human
slavery now than there was
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during the time of slavery
there.
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A lot of things were wrong, and
I don't mean to be a pessimist.
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But what the revelators are.
Telling us?
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And what they have been telling
us for 100 years.
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Is that a?
Society can no longer be held.
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Together without God.
Than a solar system without
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gravity And And what is God
anyway?
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God is an idea.
As we talked.
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About the Supreme Being, the
plan of the Supreme is is in
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motion and we are participating
in that.
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Process.
God's already got a project for
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us.
And too many people today have
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their own projects, and they're
going to have one short life to
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accomplish.
That if.
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They want to go on their own way
and go.
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Rogue but.
That's not the plan.
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And and so we all know that
God's will is.
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Service.
Serve others as you would like
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to be treated.
Treat people with respect.
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Love your neighbor.
Love your enemy.
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These are the basic truths that
teaches.
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That that Christ taught and they
are still relevant today.
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He still attracts people.
And yet despite.
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This the world hates.
Christianity many parts of the.
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World.
It is a death sentence.
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Why is that?
Well, let's take a look at that.
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In section 9 of paper 195, it
says do not overlook the value.
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Of your spiritual heritage, the
river of.
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Truth running down through the
centuries, even to the barren
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times of a materialistic and
secular.
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Age.
In all your worthy.
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Efforts to rid yourself of the
superstitious creeds of past
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ages.
Make sure that you.
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Hold.
Fast the eternal truths be, but
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be patient when the present
superstition revolt is over.
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There is there the truth of
Jesus.
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Gospel will persist gloriously.
To illuminate a new and better
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way, these present superstition
revolt.
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That's scientism asserting.
Over faith.
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That's what the ideological
struggle today.
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Is scientism which?
Is as we.
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Discussed in the earlier paper
on materialism is this notion
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that only the material is real
and everything else.
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Is relative.
The Urantia book writers affirm.
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That.
Reality is threefold.
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It is mind, it is matter, and it
is.
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Spirit.
Those are three parallels.
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Of the same and they constitute
total.
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Or the totality of reality?
Science doesn't.
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Allow for that.
Postulate, and that's why we're
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having the problems that we
have.
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Today, because it has.
Orphaned the human spirit.
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It's basically said.
The human spirit is not real.
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It is a psychological problem.
That can be treated, and that's
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from the secularist side.
Then you've got the other older
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religions.
That are antagonistic against.
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This particular.
Brand which is the religion of
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Jesus.
Love thy neighbor, love thyself.
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Worship thy God.
Have a personal relationship
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with the loving.
Father go about.
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Doing good.
That's God's will.
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Okay, so let me continue on.
But paganized and socialized
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Christianity stands in need of
new contact with the
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uncompromised teachings of
Jesus.
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It languishes for lack of a new
vision of the master's life on
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earth.
A new and fuller revelation of
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the religion of Jesus is
destined to conquer an empire of
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materialistic secularism and to.
Overthrow a world.
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Sway of mechanistic naturalism,
Urantia is now quivering on the
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very brink of one of its most
amazing and enthralling epics of
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social readjustment, moral
quickening and spiritual
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enlightenment.
The teachings of Jesus, even
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though greatly modified, survive
the mystery cults.
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Of their birth.
Time, the ignorance and the
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superstition of the Dark Ages,
and are even now slowly
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triumphing, triumphing over the
materialism, mechanism and
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secularism of the 20th century
and such times of great testing
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and threatened.
Defeat are always.
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Times of great Revelation.
Religion does not need, does
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need new leaders, spiritual men
and women.
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Who will dare?
To depend solely on Jesus and
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his incomparable teachings if
Christianity persists in
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neglecting its spiritual mission
while it continues to.
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Busy itself with social.
And material problems.
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The spiritual renaissance must
await the coming of these new
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teachers of Jesus's religion.
Who will be exclusively devoted?
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To the spiritual.
Regeneration of men and then
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will the Spirit born?
Souls quickly supply the
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leadership.
And inspiration requisite for
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the.
Social.
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Moral, Economic and Political
Reorganization of the world, the
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Modern.
Age will refuse to.
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Accept a religion which is
inconsistent with facts and out
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of harmony with the highest
conceptions of truth, beauty and
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goodness.
The hour is.
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Striking for A.
Rediscovery.
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Of the true and original
foundation, a present day
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distorted and compromised
Christianity, the real life and
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teachings.
Of Jesus primitive.
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Men and man lived a life of
superstitious bondage.
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To religious fear.
Modern civilized men dread.
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The thought of.
Falling under the dominance of
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strong religious convictions.
Thinking man has always.
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Feared, Feared to be held by.
A religion.
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When a strong and moving
religion threatens to dominate
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him, he invariably.
Tries to.
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Rationalize, traditionalize, and
institutionalize it, thereby
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hoping to gain control of it.
By such a procedure.
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Even a revealed religion becomes
man made and man dominated.
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Modern men and women of
intelligence evade the religion
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of Jesus.
Because of their fears.
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Of what it will do?
To them and with them and.
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All such fears are well founded.
The.
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Religion of Jesus does indeed
dominate and transform its.
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Believers.
Demanding that men dedicate
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their lives to seeking for a
knowledge.
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Of the will.
Of the Father in Heaven, and
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requiring that the energies of
living be consecrated to the
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unselfish service of the
brotherhood of man.
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Selfish men and women simply
will not pay such a.
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Price.
For even the.
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Greatest spiritual treasure.
Ever offered mortal man only
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when man has become sufficiently
disillusioned.
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By the.
Sorrowful disappointments
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attendant upon the foolish and
deceptive pursuits of
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selfishness, and subsequent to
the.
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Discovery of the.
Barrenness of formalized
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religion.
Will he be?
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Disposed to turn wholeheartedly.
To the gospel.
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Of the Kingdom.
The religion of Jesus of
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Nazareth.
The world needs more firsthand
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religion, even Christianity, The
best of the religions of the
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20th century, is not only a
religion about Jesus.
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But it is.
So largely one which men
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experience secondhand.
They take their.
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Religion wholly as handed down
by their accepted.
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Religious, religious teachers.
What an awakening the world
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would experience.
If it could only see.
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Jesus as he.
Really lived on earth and no
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first hand is life.
Giving teachings, descriptive
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words of things beautiful cannot
thrill.
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Like the sight.
Thereof, neither can creedal
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words inspire men's soul.
Like the experience?
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Of knowing the presence of God,
but expectant faith.
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Will ever keep the hope door?
Of man's soul open for the
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entrance of the eternal
spiritual realities.
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Of the divine values of the
world's beyond, and that is the
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difference really between the.
Secular world.
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Here and now point of view but
when we think about and this
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was.
Also discussed.
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In our previous section that.
These these revelators of light.
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Are saying you need to expand
your view of of reality.
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And it's not just what happens
in your, you know, 60-70 eighty
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years of life on earth.
There is something more, and
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what you do here determines the
fate.
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To a large degree of how you
progress if you.
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Progress on that eternal
journey.
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Now, it's not a litmus test, but
they're saying that the only way
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that we can get.
There so that we don't suffer
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under the.
Materialistic fetters of being
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finite creatures is through our
mind.
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Which is attached to the Spirit
of God.
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And it carries us to that next
threshold.
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And it.
Is a requirement that we and our
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will embrace that idea of
eternal values, the spiritual
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Kingdom, or whatever you want to
call it, heaven.
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The afterlife.
One man described it as an
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elevator, where you get in, get
off one floor and you get on
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another.
It's all kinds of ways to look
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at it, but the important thing
is the concept of the life
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everlasting and that this
universe is not.
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Just a haphazard.
Random causation event.
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There's a there's a plan going
on, there's something in action
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and we are a part.
Of that process.
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We'll we'll conclude with these
final words.
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Christianity has dared.
To lower its ideals before the.
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Challenge of human greed, war,
madness, and the lust for.
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Power but the.
Religion of Jesus stands as the
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unsullied and transcended
spiritual summons.
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Calling to the best there is in
man to rise.
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Above all these legacies of.
Animal evolution and by grace
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attain the moral heights of true
human destiny.
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Christianity.
Christianity is threatened by
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slow death from formalism over
organization, intellectualism,
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and other nonspiritual trends.
The modern Christian Church is
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not.
Such a brotherhood.
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Of dynamic.
Believers as.
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Jesus commissioned continuously.
To affect the spiritual.
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Transformation of successive
generations of mankind.
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So-called.
Christianity has become a social
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and cultural movement.
As well as a religious belief
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and.
Practice.
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The stream of modern
Christianity drains many an
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ancient Pagan swamp and many a
barbarian morass.
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Many old and cultural watersheds
drain into this presentday
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cultural stream as.
Well as the.
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High Galilean table lands.
Which are supposed it to be its
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exclusive source, I've said.
Before on on these podcasts that
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Christianity is very much like a
Christmas tree.
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The Christmas tree itself is a
symbol of many Pagan and
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religious events.
Or societies of the past?
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And there's a little bit of
everything a.
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Little bit of.
Of man's search.
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For religious truth.
In a Christmas tree, everything
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represents something.
Here's.
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What I'll say to you now in the
next section, which we'll save
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for the next episode we're going
to.
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Explore the future.
Section 10.
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It's the final section in paper
195, and it gives us a road map
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to the.
Future.
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And I know you're going to enjoy
it.
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I thank you for stopping by.
It's.
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Always a pleasure here.
It's always a pleasure and I do
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hope that you will share this
podcast I told you last.
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Time that.
We have surpassed the six.
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Figure Mark.
Over 6 over. 100,000.
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People have.
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Isn't that amazing?
That means that people's
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interest in the Ranch book is
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And I am so happy.
So thank you.
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E-mail me your Ranch book
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And I look.
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Forward to our next get together
the song called Avalon, which is
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done by Roxy Music and I just.
I just love it.
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I think it's a great way to end
the segment.
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I hope you enjoy it.
