Urantia Text

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The Urantia Text is comprised of what is more commonly known as The Urantia Book, but since the announcement of the Second Revelatory Commission, is understood to include any such writing as may ensue from this more recent initiative as well. Nevertheless, The Urantia Book, first published by Urantia Foundation in 1955, claims to have been presented by celestial beings as the fifth in a series of epochal revelations to our planet, Urantia. It outlines the genesis, history, and destiny of humanity and its relationship with God while presenting a unique portrait of the life and teachings of Jesus. Additionally, The Urantia Book offers an integral view of the functions of science, philosophy, and religion. For contents,follow this link:[1]

What is The Urantia Book?

The Urantia Book presents an integrated world view composed of the thought records of more than 1,000 individuals who have contributed to the fields of science, philosophy, religion, history, sociology and theology up to the time when these Papers were written.

What's In It?

Part I: The Universe of Universes - How the cosmos is structured and managed: An purposeful personal universe, evolving in time and space toward a transcendent destiny is described. This creation includes millions of inhabited worlds in various stages of biological, intellectual, social and spiritual evolution. The nature of God and his relationship to the evolving creation is explored in great detail.

Part II: The Local Universe- The evolutionary plan for fostering the evolving social structures of the universes is detailed. Personality survival is determined by our free will decisions related to our personal relationship with God. Most important are the values which we choose to organize and conduct our personal lives. Growth toward perfection should be our fundamental orientation. This growth is evolutionary, cumulative, and virtually endless. It is achieved through the love of God and unselfish service to our fellow beings.

Part III: The History of Urantia -- A geophysical and cultural history of our planet. An overview of the development of civilization, culture, government, religion, the family, and other social institutions is described from the viewpoint of superhuman observers. The meanings and values contained within human religious civilization are revitalized, strengthening the foundations upon which further cultural development may take place. A description of human destiny is provided including a description of the worlds we will inhabit immediately following mortal death.

Part IV: The Life and Teachings of Jesus -- Seven hundred pages devoted to the life of Jesus make up the most spiritually compelling biography of Jesus anywhere in print. The Urantia Book relates over 16 times as much information about Jesus' life and teachings than does the Bible. The literary depth of The Urantia Book clearly reveals and touchingly portrays his combined humanity and divinity.

Who Wrote It?

The Urantia Book is an anthology of 196 "papers" written mostly between 1928 and 1935 by superhuman personalities whose titles are appended to their respective essays.

The humans into whose hands these papers were delivered are now deceased. The means by which the papers were materialized was is not clearly understood.

The contents are a compilation of some of the best thinking from more than 1,000 human authors writing between the first century and the early 20th century, edited and sometimes combined with information and commentary by the "first revelatory commission".

Current research is beginning to identify the human sources used in this undertaking.