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− | 101:9.1 No professed [[revelation]] of [[religion]] could be regarded as [[authentic]] if it failed to [[recognize]] the [[duty]] demands of [[ethical]] [[obligation]] which had been [[created]] and fostered by preceding [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION evolutionary religion]. [[Revelation]] unfailingly enlarges the [[ethical]] [[horizon]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolved religion] while it [[simultaneously]] and unfailingly expands the [[moral]] [[obligations]] of all prior [[revelations]]. | + | 101:9.1 No professed [[revelation]] of [[religion]] could be regarded as [[authentic]] if it failed to [[recognize]] the [[duty]] demands of [[ethical]] [[obligation]] which had been [[created]] and fostered by preceding [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:1._THE_EVOLUTIONARY_NATURE_OF_RELIGION evolutionary religion]. [[Revelation]] unfailingly enlarges the [[ethical]] [[horizon]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92#92:3._THE_NATURE_OF_EVOLUTIONARY_RELIGION evolved religion] while it [[simultaneously]] and unfailingly expands the [[moral]] [[obligations]] of all prior [[revelations]]. |
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− | 101:9.2 When you presume to sit in [[critical]] [[judgment]] on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#86:7._THE_FUNCTION_OF_PRIMITIVE_RELIGION primitive religion of man] (or on the [[religion]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:5._THE_FIRST_HUMAN_BEINGS primitive man]), you should remember to [[judge]] such [[savages]] and to [[evaluate]] their religious [[experience]] in accordance with their [[enlightenment]] and [[status]] of [[conscience]]. Do not make the mistake of judging another's [[religion]] by your own [[standards]] of [[knowledge]] and [[truth]]. | + | 101:9.2 When you presume to sit in [[critical]] [[judgment]] on the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_86#86:7._THE_FUNCTION_OF_PRIMITIVE_RELIGION primitive religion of man] (or on the [[religion]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_62#62:5._THE_FIRST_HUMAN_BEINGS primitive man]), you should remember to [[judge]] such [[savages]] and to [[evaluate]] their religious [[experience]] in accordance with their [[enlightenment]] and [[status]] of [[conscience]]. Do not make the mistake of judging another's [[religion]] by your own [[standards]] of [[knowledge]] and [[truth]]. |
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| 101:9.3 True [[religion]] is that [[sublime]] and [[profound]] [[conviction]] within the [[soul]] which compellingly admonishes man that it would be wrong for him not to believe in those [[morontial]] [[realities]] which [[constitute]] his highest [[ethical]] and moral [[concepts]], his highest [[interpretation]] of life's greatest [[values]] and the [[universe]]'s deepest [[realities]]. And such a [[religion]] is simply the [[experience]] of yielding [[intellectual]] [[loyalty]] to the highest dictates of [[spiritual]] [[consciousness]]. | | 101:9.3 True [[religion]] is that [[sublime]] and [[profound]] [[conviction]] within the [[soul]] which compellingly admonishes man that it would be wrong for him not to believe in those [[morontial]] [[realities]] which [[constitute]] his highest [[ethical]] and moral [[concepts]], his highest [[interpretation]] of life's greatest [[values]] and the [[universe]]'s deepest [[realities]]. And such a [[religion]] is simply the [[experience]] of yielding [[intellectual]] [[loyalty]] to the highest dictates of [[spiritual]] [[consciousness]]. |
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| 101:9.9 [[Faith]] becomes the [[connection]] between [[moral]] [[consciousness]] and the [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of enduring [[reality]]. [[Religion]] becomes the avenue of man's [[escape]] from the [[material]] [[limitations]] of the [[temporal]] and natural world to the [[supernal]] [[realities]] of the [[eternal]] and [[spiritual]] world by and through the [[technique]] of [[salvation]], the [[progressive]] [[morontia]] [[transformation]]. | | 101:9.9 [[Faith]] becomes the [[connection]] between [[moral]] [[consciousness]] and the [[spiritual]] [[concept]] of enduring [[reality]]. [[Religion]] becomes the avenue of man's [[escape]] from the [[material]] [[limitations]] of the [[temporal]] and natural world to the [[supernal]] [[realities]] of the [[eternal]] and [[spiritual]] world by and through the [[technique]] of [[salvation]], the [[progressive]] [[morontia]] [[transformation]]. |
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| [[Category:Paper 101 - The Real Nature of Religion]] | | [[Category:Paper 101 - The Real Nature of Religion]] |
| [[Category: Spirituality]] | | [[Category: Spirituality]] |
| [[Category: Morality]] | | [[Category: Morality]] |