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102:0.1 To the unbelieving [[materialist]], man is simply an [[evolutionary]] [[accident]]. His [[hopes]] of [[survival]] are strung on a figment of [[mortal]] [[imagination]]; his [[fears]], [[loves]], longings, and [[beliefs]] are but the [[reaction]] of the incidental [[juxtaposition]] of certain lifeless [[atoms]] of [[matter]]. No display of [[energy]] nor [[expression]] of [[trust]] can carry him beyond the [[grave]]. The [[devotional]] [[labors]] and [[inspirational]] [[genius]] of the best of men are [[doomed]] to be [[extinguished]] by [[death]], the long and lonely night of [[eternal]] oblivion and [[soul]] [[extinction]]. Nameless [[despair]] is man's only reward for living and toiling under the [[temporal]] [[sun]] of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. Each day of life slowly and surely tightens the grasp of a pitiless [[doom]] which a hostile and relentless [[universe]] of [[matter]] has [[decreed]] shall be the crowning insult to [[everything]] in human [[desire]] which is [[beautiful]], [[noble]], lofty, and [[good]].
102:0.2 But such is not man's end and [[eternal]] [[destiny]]; such a [[vision]] is but the [[cry]] of [[despair]] uttered by some [[wandering]] [[soul]] who has become lost in [[spiritual]] [[darkness]], and who [[bravely]] struggles on in the face of the [[mechanistic]] [[sophistries]] of a [[material]] [[philosophy]], blinded by the [[confusion]] and [[distortion]] of a [[complex]] learning. And all this [[doom]] of [[darkness]] and all this [[destiny]] of [[despair]] are forever dispelled by one [[brave]] stretch of [[faith]] on the part of the most [[humble]] and unlearned of [[God]]'s [[children]] on [[earth]].
102:0.3 This saving [[faith]] has its [[birth]] in the [[human]] [[heart]] when the [[moral]] [[consciousness]] of man [[realizes]] that [[human]] [[values]] may be [[translated]] in [[mortal]] [[experience]] from the [[material]] to the [[spiritual]], from the [[human]] to the [[divine]], from [[time]] to [[eternity]].
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[[Category: Paper 102 - The Foundations of Religious Faith]]
102:0.1 To the unbelieving [[materialist]], man is simply an [[evolutionary]] [[accident]]. His [[hopes]] of [[survival]] are strung on a figment of [[mortal]] [[imagination]]; his [[fears]], [[loves]], longings, and [[beliefs]] are but the [[reaction]] of the incidental [[juxtaposition]] of certain lifeless [[atoms]] of [[matter]]. No display of [[energy]] nor [[expression]] of [[trust]] can carry him beyond the [[grave]]. The [[devotional]] [[labors]] and [[inspirational]] [[genius]] of the best of men are [[doomed]] to be [[extinguished]] by [[death]], the long and lonely night of [[eternal]] oblivion and [[soul]] [[extinction]]. Nameless [[despair]] is man's only reward for living and toiling under the [[temporal]] [[sun]] of [[mortal]] [[existence]]. Each day of life slowly and surely tightens the grasp of a pitiless [[doom]] which a hostile and relentless [[universe]] of [[matter]] has [[decreed]] shall be the crowning insult to [[everything]] in human [[desire]] which is [[beautiful]], [[noble]], lofty, and [[good]].
102:0.2 But such is not man's end and [[eternal]] [[destiny]]; such a [[vision]] is but the [[cry]] of [[despair]] uttered by some [[wandering]] [[soul]] who has become lost in [[spiritual]] [[darkness]], and who [[bravely]] struggles on in the face of the [[mechanistic]] [[sophistries]] of a [[material]] [[philosophy]], blinded by the [[confusion]] and [[distortion]] of a [[complex]] learning. And all this [[doom]] of [[darkness]] and all this [[destiny]] of [[despair]] are forever dispelled by one [[brave]] stretch of [[faith]] on the part of the most [[humble]] and unlearned of [[God]]'s [[children]] on [[earth]].
102:0.3 This saving [[faith]] has its [[birth]] in the [[human]] [[heart]] when the [[moral]] [[consciousness]] of man [[realizes]] that [[human]] [[values]] may be [[translated]] in [[mortal]] [[experience]] from the [[material]] to the [[spiritual]], from the [[human]] to the [[divine]], from [[time]] to [[eternity]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_102 Go to Paper 102]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category: Paper 102 - The Foundations of Religious Faith]]
