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196:1.1 [[Jesus]]' [[devotion]] to [[the Father]]'s will and the [[service]] of man was even more than [[mortal]] [[decision]] and human [[determination]]; it was a wholehearted [[consecration]] of himself to such an unreserved [[bestowal]] of [[love]]. No matter how great the [[fact]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY sovereignty of Michael], you must not take the [[human]] [[Jesus]] away from men. [[The Master]] has [[ascended]] on high as a man, as well as [[God]]; he belongs to men; men belong to him. How unfortunate that [[religion]] itself should be so misinterpreted as to take the [[human]] [[Jesus]] away from [[struggling]] [[mortals]]! Let not the [[discussions]] of the [[humanity]] or the [[divinity]] of the [[Christ]] obscure the saving [[truth]] that [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] was a [[religious]] man who, by [[faith]], [[achieved]] the knowing and the [[doing of the will of God]]; he was the most truly [[religious]] man who has ever lived on [[Urantia]].

196:1.1 [[Jesus]]' [[devotion]] to [[the Father]]'s will and the [[service]] of man was even more than [[mortal]] [[decision]] and human [[determination]]; it was a wholehearted [[consecration]] of himself to such an unreserved [[bestowal]] of [[love]]. No matter how great the [[fact]] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21#21:3._LOCAL_UNIVERSE_SOVEREIGNTY sovereignty of Michael], you must not take the [[human]] [[Jesus]] away from men. [[The Master]] has [[ascended]] on high as a man, as well as [[God]]; he belongs to men; men belong to him. How unfortunate that [[religion]] itself should be so misinterpreted as to take the [[human]] [[Jesus]] away from [[struggling]] [[mortals]]! Let not the [[discussions]] of the [[humanity]] or the [[divinity]] of the [[Christ]] obscure the saving [[truth]] that [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] was a [[religious]] man who, by [[faith]], [[achieved]] the knowing and the [[doing of the will of God]]; he was the most truly [[religious]] man who has ever lived on [[Urantia]].

196:1.2 The time is ripe to [[witness]] the [[figurative]] [[resurrection]] of the [[human]] [[Jesus]] from his [[burial]] [[tomb]] amidst the [[theological]] [[traditions]] and the religious [[dogmas]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity nineteen centuries]. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] must not be longer [[sacrificed]] to even the splendid [[concept]] of the [[glorified]] [[Christ]]. What a [[transcendent]] [[service]] if, through this [[revelation]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] should be recovered from the [[tomb]] of [[traditional]] [[theology]] and be presented as the living [[Jesus]] to the [[church]] that bears his name, and to all other [[religions]]! Surely the [[Christian]] fellowship of [[believers]] will not [[hesitate]] to make such [[adjustments]] of [[faith]] and of [[practices]] of [[living]] as will enable it to " follow after " [[the Master]] in the [[demonstration]] of his real life of religious [[devotion]] to [[the doing of his Father's will]] and of [[consecration]] to the [[unselfish]] [[service]] of man. Do professed [[Christians]] [[fear]] the [[exposure]] of a self-sufficient and unconsecrated fellowship of [[social]] respectability and [[selfish]] [[economic]] maladjustment? Does [[institutional]] [[Christianity]] [[fear]] the possible jeopardy, or even the overthrow, of [[traditional]] [[ecclesiastical]] [[authority]] if the [[Jesus]] of [[Galilee]] is reinstated in the [[minds]] and [[souls]] of [[mortal]] men as the [[ideal]] of [[personal]] religious living? Indeed, the [[social]] readjustments, the [[economic]] [[transformations]], the [[moral]] rejuvenations, and the religious revisions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom Christian civilization] would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of [[Jesus]] should suddenly supplant the [[theologic]] religion about [[Jesus]].

196:1.2 The time is ripe to [[witness]] the [[figurative]] [[resurrection]] of the [[human]] [[Jesus]] from his [[burial]] [[tomb]] amidst the [[theological]] [[traditions]] and the religious [[dogmas]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Christianity nineteen centuries]. [[Jesus]] of [[Nazareth]] must not be longer [[sacrificed]] to even the splendid [[concept]] of the [[glorified]] [[Christ]]. What a [[transcendent]] [[service]] if, through this [[revelation]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man Son of Man] should be recovered from the [[tomb]] of [[traditional]] [[theology]] and be presented as the living [[Jesus]] to the [[church]] that bears his name, and to all other [[religions]]! Surely the [[Christian]] fellowship of [[believers]] will not [[hesitate]] to make such [[adjustments]] of [[faith]] and of [[practices]] of [[living]] as will enable it to " follow after " [[the Master]] in the [[demonstration]] of his real life of religious [[devotion]] to [[the doing of his Father's will]] and of [[consecration]] to the [[unselfish]] [[service]] of man. Do professed [[Christians]] [[fear]] the [[exposure]] of a self-sufficient and unconsecrated fellowship of [[social]] respectability and [[selfish]] [[economic]] maladjustment? Does [[institutional]] [[Christianity]] [[fear]] the possible jeopardy, or even the overthrow, of [[traditional]] [[ecclesiastical]] [[authority]] if the [[Jesus]] of [[Galilee]] is reinstated in the [[minds]] and [[souls]] of [[mortal]] men as the [[ideal]] of [[personal]] religious living? Indeed, the [[social]] readjustments, the [[economic]] [[transformations]], the [[moral]] rejuvenations, and the religious revisions of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom Christian civilization] would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of [[Jesus]] should suddenly supplant the [[theologic]] religion about [[Jesus]].

196:1.3 To " follow Jesus " means to [[personally]] [[share]] his religious [[faith]] and to enter into the [[spirit]] of [[the Master]]'s life of [[unselfish]] [[service]] for man. One of the most important things in [[human]] [[living]] is to find out what [[Jesus]] believed, to [[discover]] his [[ideals]], and to strive for the [[achievement]] of his exalted life [[purpose]]. Of all human [[knowledge]], that which is of greatest [[value]] is to know the [[religious]] life of [[Jesus]] and how he lived it.

196:1.3 To " follow Jesus " means to [[personally]] [[share]] his religious [[faith]] and to enter into the [[spirit]] of [[the Master]]'s life of [[unselfish]] [[service]] for man. One of the most important things in [[human]] [[living]] is to find out what [[Jesus]] believed, to [[discover]] his [[ideals]], and to strive for the [[achievement]] of his exalted life [[purpose]]. Of all human [[knowledge]], that which is of greatest [[value]] is to know the [[religious]] life of [[Jesus]] and how he lived it.