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96:6.1 Upon the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Death death of Moses] his lofty [[concept]] of [[Yahweh]] rapidly [[deteriorated]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua Joshua] and the [[leaders]] of [[Israel]] continued to harbor the Mosaic [[traditions]] of the all-[[wise]], beneficent, and almighty [[God]], but the common people rapidly reverted to the older [[desert]] [[idea]] of [[Yahweh]]. And this backward drift of the [[concept]] of [[Deity]] continued increasingly under the successive rule of the various [[tribal]] sheiks, the so-called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judges Judges].

96:6.1 Upon the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Death death of Moses] his lofty [[concept]] of [[Yahweh]] rapidly [[deteriorated]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua Joshua] and the [[leaders]] of [[Israel]] continued to harbor the Mosaic [[traditions]] of the all-[[wise]], beneficent, and almighty [[God]], but the common people rapidly reverted to the older [[desert]] [[idea]] of [[Yahweh]]. And this backward drift of the [[concept]] of [[Deity]] continued increasingly under the successive rule of the various [[tribal]] sheiks, the so-called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judges Judges].

96:6.2 The spell of the extraordinary [[personality]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] had kept alive in the [[hearts]] of his followers the [[inspiration]] of an increasingly enlarged [[concept]] of [[God]]; but when they once reached the fertile lands of [[Palestine]], they quickly evolved from [[nomadic]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd herders] into settled and somewhat sedate [[farmers]]. And this [[evolution]] of life [[practices]] and [[change]] of religious viewpoint demanded a more or less complete [[change]] in the [[character]] of their [[conception]] of the [[nature]] of their [[God]], [[Yahweh]]. During the times of the beginning of the [[transmutation]] of the [[austere]], crude, exacting, and thunderous [[desert]] god of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinai Sinai] into the later appearing [[concept]] of a [[God]] of [[love]], [[justice]], and [[mercy]], the [[Hebrews]] almost lost sight of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]' lofty teachings. They came near losing all [[concept]] of [[monotheism]]; they nearly lost their [[opportunity]] of becoming the people who would serve as a vital link in the [[spiritual]] [[evolution]] of [[Urantia]], the [[group]] who would conserve the [[Melchizedek]] teaching of one God until the times of the [[incarnation]] of a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:6._THE_MORTAL-BESTOWAL_CAREERS bestowal Son] of [[Universal Father|that Father]] of all.

96:6.2 The spell of the extraordinary [[personality]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] had kept alive in the [[hearts]] of his followers the [[inspiration]] of an increasingly enlarged [[concept]] of [[God]]; but when they once reached the fertile lands of [[Palestine]], they quickly evolved from [[nomadic]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd herders] into settled and somewhat sedate [[farmers]]. And this [[evolution]] of life [[practices]] and [[change]] of religious viewpoint demanded a more or less complete [[change]] in the [[character]] of their [[conception]] of the [[nature]] of their [[God]], [[Yahweh]]. During the times of the beginning of the [[transmutation]] of the [[austere]], crude, exacting, and thunderous [[desert]] god of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinai Sinai] into the later appearing [[concept]] of a [[God]] of [[love]], [[justice]], and [[mercy]], the [[Hebrews]] almost lost sight of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]' lofty teachings. They came near losing all [[concept]] of [[monotheism]]; they nearly lost their [[opportunity]] of becoming the people who would serve as a vital link in the [[spiritual]] [[evolution]] of [[Urantia]], the [[group]] who would conserve the [[Melchizedek]] teaching of one God until the times of the [[incarnation]] of a [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:6._THE_MORTAL-BESTOWAL_CAREERS bestowal Son] of [[Universal Father|that Father]] of all.

96:6.3 Desperately [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua Joshua] sought to hold the [[concept]] of a supreme [[Yahweh]] in the [[minds]] of the tribesmen, causing it to be proclaimed: "As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will not fail you nor forsake you."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Joshua#Chapter__.1] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua Joshua] found it [[necessary]] to preach a stern gospel to his disbelieving people, people all too willing to believe their old and [[native]] [[religion]] but unwilling to go forward in the [[religion]] of [[faith]] and [[righteousness]]. The burden of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua Joshua]'s teaching became: "Yahweh is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Joshua#Chapter__.24] The highest [[concept]] of this age pictured [[Yahweh]] as a "God of power, judgment, and justice."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.37]

96:6.3 Desperately [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua Joshua] sought to hold the [[concept]] of a supreme [[Yahweh]] in the [[minds]] of the tribesmen, causing it to be proclaimed: "As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will not fail you nor forsake you."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Joshua#Chapter__.1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua Joshua] found it [[necessary]] to preach a stern gospel to his disbelieving people, people all too willing to believe their old and [[native]] [[religion]] but unwilling to go forward in the [[religion]] of [[faith]] and [[righteousness]]. The burden of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua Joshua]'s teaching became: "Yahweh is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Joshua#Chapter__.24] The highest [[concept]] of this age pictured [[Yahweh]] as a "God of power, judgment, and justice."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.37]

96:6.4 But even in this dark age, every now and then a [[solitary]] teacher would arise proclaiming the Mosaic [[concept]] of [[divinity]]: "You children of wickedness cannot serve the Lord, for he is a holy God." "Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker? "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.4] " Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection? Behold, God is great and we know him not. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.11]

96:6.4 But even in this dark age, every now and then a [[solitary]] teacher would arise proclaiming the Mosaic [[concept]] of [[divinity]]: "You children of wickedness cannot serve the Lord, for he is a holy God." "Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker? "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.4] " Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection? Behold, God is great and we know him not. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out."[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.11]

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