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188:4.1 Although [[Jesus]] did not die this [[death]] on the [[cross]] to [[atone]] for the [[racial]] [[guilt]] of [[mortal]] man nor to provide some sort of [[effective]] approach to an otherwise [[offended]] and unforgiving [[God]]; even though the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] did not offer himself as a [[sacrifice]] to appease the [[wrath]] of [[God]] and to open the way for sinful man to obtain [[salvation]]; notwithstanding that these [[ideas]] of [[atonement]] and propitiation are [[erroneous]], nonetheless, there are significances attached to this [[death]] of [[Jesus]] on the [[cross]] which should not be overlooked. It is a [[fact]] that [[Urantia]] has become known among other [[neighboring]] [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited planets] as the " World of the Cross. "

188:4.1 Although [[Jesus]] did not die this [[death]] on the [[cross]] to [[atone]] for the [[racial]] [[guilt]] of [[mortal]] man nor to provide some sort of [[effective]] approach to an otherwise [[offended]] and unforgiving [[God]]; even though the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] did not offer himself as a [[sacrifice]] to appease the [[wrath]] of [[God]] and to open the way for sinful man to obtain [[salvation]]; notwithstanding that these [[ideas]] of [[atonement]] and propitiation are [[erroneous]], nonetheless, there are significances attached to this [[death]] of [[Jesus]] on the [[cross]] which should not be overlooked. It is a [[fact]] that [[Urantia]] has become known among other [[neighboring]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited planets] as the " World of the Cross. "

188:4.2 [[Jesus]] [[desired]] to live a full [[mortal]] life in the [[flesh]] on [[Urantia]]. [[Death]] is, ordinarily, a part of life. [[Death]] is the last [[act]] in the [[mortal]] [[drama]]. In your well-meant [[efforts]] to [[escape]] the [[superstitious]] [[errors]] of the [[false]] [[interpretation]] of the [[meaning]] of the [[death]] on the [[cross]], you should be careful not to make the great mistake of [[failing]] to [[perceive]] the true significance and the genuine import of [[the Master]]'s [[death]].

188:4.2 [[Jesus]] [[desired]] to live a full [[mortal]] life in the [[flesh]] on [[Urantia]]. [[Death]] is, ordinarily, a part of life. [[Death]] is the last [[act]] in the [[mortal]] [[drama]]. In your well-meant [[efforts]] to [[escape]] the [[superstitious]] [[errors]] of the [[false]] [[interpretation]] of the [[meaning]] of the [[death]] on the [[cross]], you should be careful not to make the great mistake of [[failing]] to [[perceive]] the true significance and the genuine import of [[the Master]]'s [[death]].

188:4.3 [[Mortal]] man was never the [[property]] of the archdeceivers. [[Jesus]] did not die to [[ransom]] man from the clutch of the [[apostate]] rulers and fallen princes of the [[spheres]]. [[The Father]] in heaven never [[conceived]] of such crass injustice as [[damning]] a [[mortal]] [[soul]] because of the evildoing of his [[ancestors]]. Neither was [[the Master]]'s [[death]] on the [[cross]] a [[sacrifice]] which consisted in an [[effort]] to pay [[God]] a [[debt]] which the [[race]] of [[mankind]] had come to owe him.

188:4.3 [[Mortal]] man was never the [[property]] of the archdeceivers. [[Jesus]] did not die to [[ransom]] man from the clutch of the [[apostate]] rulers and fallen princes of the [[spheres]]. [[The Father]] in heaven never [[conceived]] of such crass injustice as [[damning]] a [[mortal]] [[soul]] because of the evildoing of his [[ancestors]]. Neither was [[the Master]]'s [[death]] on the [[cross]] a [[sacrifice]] which consisted in an [[effort]] to pay [[God]] a [[debt]] which the [[race]] of [[mankind]] had come to owe him.

188:4.4 Before [[Jesus]] lived on [[earth]], you might possibly have been [[justified]] in believing in such a [[God]], but not since [[the Master]] lived and died among your fellow [[mortals]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] taught the [[dignity]] and [[justice]] of a [[Creator]] [[God]]; but [[Jesus]] portrayed the [[love]] and [[mercy]] of a heavenly [[Father]].

188:4.4 Before [[Jesus]] lived on [[earth]], you might possibly have been [[justified]] in believing in such a [[God]], but not since [[the Master]] lived and died among your fellow [[mortals]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] taught the [[dignity]] and [[justice]] of a [[Creator]] [[God]]; but [[Jesus]] portrayed the [[love]] and [[mercy]] of a heavenly [[Father]].

188:4.5 The [[animal nature]]—the tendency toward [[evil]]-doing—may be [[hereditary]], but [[sin]] is not [[transmitted]] from [[parent]] to [[child]]. [[Sin]] is the [[act]] of [[conscious]] and deliberate [[rebellion]] against [[the Father]]'s will and [[Creator Son|the Son]]s' [[laws]] by an [[individual]] will [[creature]].

188:4.5 The [[animal nature]]—the tendency toward [[evil]]-doing—may be [[hereditary]], but [[sin]] is not [[transmitted]] from [[parent]] to [[child]]. [[Sin]] is the [[act]] of [[conscious]] and deliberate [[rebellion]] against [[the Father]]'s will and [[Creator Son|the Son]]s' [[laws]] by an [[individual]] will [[creature]].

188:4.6 [[Jesus]] lived and died for a whole [[universe]], not just for the [[races]] of [[Urantia|this one world]]. While the [[mortals]] of the realms had [[salvation]] even before [[Jesus]] lived and died on [[Urantia]], it is nevertheless a [[fact]] that [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 his bestowal on this world] greatly [[illuminated]] the way of [[salvation]]; his [[death]] did much to make forever plain the [[certainty]] of [[mortal]] [[survival]] after [[death]] in the [[flesh]].

188:4.6 [[Jesus]] lived and died for a whole [[universe]], not just for the [[races]] of [[Urantia|this one world]]. While the [[mortals]] of the realms had [[salvation]] even before [[Jesus]] lived and died on [[Urantia]], it is nevertheless a [[fact]] that [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_120 his bestowal on this world] greatly [[illuminated]] the way of [[salvation]]; his [[death]] did much to make forever plain the [[certainty]] of [[mortal]] [[survival]] after [[death]] in the [[flesh]].

188:4.7 Though it is hardly proper to [[speak]] of [[Jesus]] as a sacrificer, a ransomer, or a [[redeemer]], it is wholly correct to refer to him as a [[savior]]. He forever made the way of [[salvation]] ([[survival]]) more [[clear]] and [[certain]]; he did better and more surely show the way of [[salvation]] for all the [[mortals]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 all the worlds] of the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]].

188:4.7 Though it is hardly proper to [[speak]] of [[Jesus]] as a sacrificer, a ransomer, or a [[redeemer]], it is wholly correct to refer to him as a [[savior]]. He forever made the way of [[salvation]] ([[survival]]) more [[clear]] and [[certain]]; he did better and more surely show the way of [[salvation]] for all the [[mortals]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 all the worlds] of the [[universe]] of [[Nebadon]].

188:4.8 When once you grasp the [[idea]] of [[God]] as a true and loving [[Father]], the only [[concept]] which [[Jesus]] ever taught, you must forthwith, in all [[consistency]], utterly abandon all those [[primitive]] notions about [[God]] as an offended [[monarch]], a stern and all-powerful ruler whose chief delight is to detect his subjects in wrongdoing and to see that they are adequately [[punished]], unless some being almost [[equal]] to himself should [[volunteer]] to [[suffer]] for them, to die as a substitute and in their stead. The whole [[idea]] of ransom and [[atonement]] is incompatible with the [[concept]] of [[God]] as it was taught and exemplified by [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]]. The [[infinite]] [[love]] of [[God]] is not secondary to anything in the [[divine]] [[nature]].

188:4.8 When once you grasp the [[idea]] of [[God]] as a true and loving [[Father]], the only [[concept]] which [[Jesus]] ever taught, you must forthwith, in all [[consistency]], utterly abandon all those [[primitive]] notions about [[God]] as an offended [[monarch]], a stern and all-powerful ruler whose chief delight is to detect his subjects in wrongdoing and to see that they are adequately [[punished]], unless some being almost [[equal]] to himself should [[volunteer]] to [[suffer]] for them, to die as a substitute and in their stead. The whole [[idea]] of ransom and [[atonement]] is incompatible with the [[concept]] of [[God]] as it was taught and exemplified by [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]]. The [[infinite]] [[love]] of [[God]] is not secondary to anything in the [[divine]] [[nature]].

188:4.12 The great thing about the [[death]] of [[Jesus]], as it is related to the enrichment of [[human]] [[experience]] and the enlargement of the way of [[salvation]], is not the [[fact]] of his [[death]] but rather the superb [[manner]] and the matchless [[spirit]] in which he met [[death]].

188:4.12 The great thing about the [[death]] of [[Jesus]], as it is related to the enrichment of [[human]] [[experience]] and the enlargement of the way of [[salvation]], is not the [[fact]] of his [[death]] but rather the superb [[manner]] and the matchless [[spirit]] in which he met [[death]].

188:4.13 This entire [[idea]] of the [[ransom]] of the [[atonement]] places [[salvation]] upon a plane of unreality; such a [[concept]] is purely philosophic. [[Human]] [[salvation]] is real; it is based on [[two]] [[realities]] which may be grasped by the [[creature]]'s [[faith]] and thereby become incorporated into [[individual]] [[human]] [[experience]]: the [[fact]] of the [[fatherhood]] of [[God]] and its correlated [[truth]], the brotherhood of man. It is true, after all, that you are to be " [[forgiven]] your [[debts]], even as you forgive your debtors. "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_6]

188:4.13 This entire [[idea]] of the [[ransom]] of the [[atonement]] places [[salvation]] upon a plane of unreality; such a [[concept]] is purely philosophic. [[Human]] [[salvation]] is real; it is based on [[two]] [[realities]] which may be grasped by the [[creature]]'s [[faith]] and thereby become incorporated into [[individual]] [[human]] [[experience]]: the [[fact]] of the [[fatherhood]] of [[God]] and its correlated [[truth]], the brotherhood of man. It is true, after all, that you are to be " [[forgiven]] your [[debts]], even as you forgive your debtors. "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_6]

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[[Category:Paper 188 - The Time of the Tomb]]

[[Category:Paper 188 - The Time of the Tomb]]

[[Category: Crucifixion]]

[[Category: Crucifixion]]